Part I. The nature of human capital - ch. 1. An economic perspective on the notion of 'human capital' / Margaret M. Blair - ch. 2. A social perspective : exploring the links between human capital and social capital / Janine Nahapiet - ch. 3. Global culture capital and cosmopolitan human capital : the effects of global mindset and organizational routines on cultural intelligence and international experience / Kok-Yee Ng, Mei Ling Tan, and Soon Ang - ch. 4. Cognition and human capital : the dynamic interrelationship between knowledge and behavior / Rhett A. Brymer, Michael A. Hitt, and Mario Schijven - ch. 5. A capital-based approach to the firm : reflections on the nature and scope of the concept of capital and its extension to intangibles / Peter Lewin - Part II. Human capital and the firm - ch. 6. Human capital and transaction cost economics / Nicolai J. Foss - ch. 7. Human capital and agency theory / J.-C. Spender - ch. 8. Human capital in the resource-based view / Jeroen Kraaijenbrink - ch. 9. Human capital, entrepreneurship, and the theory of the firm / Brian J. Loasby - ch. 10. The firm, human capital, and knowledge creation / Georg von Krogh and Martin W. Wallin - Part III. Human capital and organizational effectiveness - ch. 11. Human capital, HR strategy, and organizational effectiveness / Peter Boxall - ch. 12. How organizations obtain the human capital they need / Monika Hamori, Rocio Bonet, and Peter Cappelli - ch. 13. Aligning human capital with organizational needs / David P. Lepak, Riki Takeuchi, and Juani Swart - ch. 14. Maximizing value from human capital / Russell Coff - ch. 15. Accounting for human capital and organizational effectiveness / Robin Kramar, Vijaya Murthy, and James Guthrie. Part IV. Human capital interdependencies - ch. 16. Interdependencies between people in organizations / Robert M. Grant and James C. Hayton - ch. 17. Understanding interdependencies between human capital and structural capital : some directions from Kantian pragmatism / David O'Donnell - ch. 18. The distributed and dynamic dimensions of human capital / Ikujiro Nonaka, Ryoko Toyama, and Vesa Peltokorpi - ch. 19. Human capital and the organization-accommodation relationship / Jacqueline C. Vischer - ch. 20. Interdependencies between people and information systems in organizations / Alan Burton-Jones and Andrew Burton-Jones - Part V. Human capital in the future economy - ch. 21. Human capital, capabilites, and the firm : literati, numerati, and entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century enterprise / David J. Teece - ch. 22. Looking to the future : bringing organizations deeper into human capital theory / Peter D. Sherer - ch. 23. Human capital formation regimes : states, markets, and human capital in an era of globalization / Sean O Riain - ch. 24. Human capital in developing countries : the significance of the Asian experience / Thomas Clarke - ch. 25. The future of human capital : an employment relations perspective / Thomas A. Kochan and Adam Seth Litwin.