Capital Interconvertibility in Complex Organizations

Identifying various capital species in use and understanding how to convert them into more tradable forms of capital is a complex task. In this paper, we discuss how unique knowledge and relational skills have facilitated capital conversion to nurture innovation and growth in a Scandinavian telecommunication corporation. The core of our discussion is to explore the parts and the process that drives the transformation of capital species, and to show how one organization made sense of their historical knowledge based value creation processes to develop a new integrated business model based on intangible capital forms. Jan Taug The last 8 years he has worked as a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, but changed focus from "venture capital to intellectual capital " as he started on a PhD at The Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara USA, February 2000. He has a Bachelor in marketing from The Institute of Higher Marketing in Sweden, a bachelor in Business Administration and a duelled MBA in Finance and International Business from Seattle University. He has also been involved in the EU projects, MERITUM and E*know.net, and he served as an expert evaluator for the OECD. Hanno Roberts Professor Hanno Roberts is working at the Norwegian School of Management. He has a background in management accounting and control, and is/has been involved in several efforts to measure Intellectual Capital, to account for the knowledge resource and to relate it to value creation. He has been active in several OECD and EU projects on innovation and intellectual capital, and is one of the drivers in the MERITUM and E*Know-Net projects.