These proceedings represent the work of presenters at the 8th European Conference on Intellectual Capital
(ECIC 2016). This year the conference is being hosted by Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy on the 12-13 May 2016. The Conference Co-Chairs are Professor Carlo Bagnoli and Professor Chiara Mio from Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Programme Co-Chairs are Prof Andrea Garlatti and Dr Maurizio Massaro from Udine University, Italy.
The opening keynote address is by James Guthrie from the University of Sydney, Australia on A structured literature review of the intellectual capital research literature. The second day Keynote is being presented by John Dumay from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia on the topic of “Involuntary disclosure of Intellectual Capital: Is it relevant?”.
The primary aim of this conference is to contribute to the further advancement of intellectual capital theory and practice. The conference provides a platform for presenting findings and ideas for the intellectual capital community and associated fields. The range of people, issues and the mix of approaches followed will ensure an interesting two days.
143 abstracts were received for this conference. After the double blind, peer review process there are 41 Academic Research Papers, 7 PhD Papers and 3 Masters Research Papers and 1 Work in Progress Paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent truly global research from some 31 different countries, including Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France,
Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, México, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, UK, Uruguay, and USA.
We hope that you have an enjoyable conference.
Carlo Bagnoli, Chiara Mio,
Andrea Garlatti and Maurizio Massaro
May 2016
