Types of Intellectual Capital Employed in Bioeconomic Projects – A Longitudinal Case Study

Maria Sandulescu, Drago? Andrei Stoica, Catalin-Nicolae Albu and Nadia Albu
Additional contact information
Drago? Andrei Stoica: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Catalin-Nicolae Albu: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Nadia Albu: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, 2018, vol. 20, issue 49, 667

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the existence and evolution of bioeconomic projects of OMV Group, a major global player in the oil and gas industry. We further study the intellectual capital components utilized by OMV Group in supporting these bioeconomic actions. We conduct a longitudinal case study over the 2010-2016 period and illustrate with the case of OMV Group how the oil and gas organizations mobilize various types of intellectual capital to engage in bioeconomic projects. Since the global importance of bioeconomy increased exponentially in the last years, we employ a theoretical framework recently proposed in the bioeconomic literature to ascertain the type of vision followed in the bioeconomic projects and its evolution. We find that the number of bioeconomic projects proposed by our case organization increased over time, and that the projects’ focus evolved from bio-technology and bio-resources to bio-ecology, which has the potential of providing more long-term sustainable outcomes.

Keywords: bioeconomy; intellectual capital; innovation; sustainability; oil and gas industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L65 O34 Q16 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2748.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aes:amfeco:v:20:y:2018:i:49:p:667

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal from Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Valentin Dumitru ().