Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning: the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Jorge, Tadeo Lozano, Bogota, Columbia, 18-19 October 2012

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 9th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Manage-ment & Organisational Learning - ICICKM 2012, which this year is co-hosted by the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogota, Colombia.

The Conference Co Chairs are Dr Cecilia Maria Velez White from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and Dr Hans Peter Knudsen from the Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.

The Confer-ence sessions are being held in the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the Conference dinner will be held in the Universidad del Rosario.The conference will be opened with a keynote from Dr. Roberto D. Sainz, Director of Strategic Management of EMBRAPA in Brazil.

Roberto will ad-dress the topic of Building a Knowledge Management Model at Brazil's Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation): Towards a Knowl-edge-Based View of Organizations.The ICICKM Conference constitutes a valuable platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual advances in many different branches of intellectual capital, knowledge management and organisational learning.

At the same time, it provides an important opportunity for members of the KM community to come together with peers, share knowledge and exchange ideas.

ICICKM has evolved and developed over the past nine years, and the range of pa-pers accepted in this year's conference ensures an interesting two-day event.

Following an initial submission of 112 abstracts that have undergone a double blind peer review process, 38 research papers, 3 PhD research papers,1 work-in-progress papers and 3 non-academic papers are published in the ICICKM 2012 Conference Proceedings, representing work from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, New Zealand, North Cyprus, Norway, Romania, Slovakia South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the USA.I hope that you have an enjoyable conference.Fernando Chaparro Progamme ChairOctober 2012