The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge capitalism can provide an explanation of the...

We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture conditional conservatism, we use three measures: the Basu (1997) measure, the Khan and Watts (2009) measure, and a measure controlling for potential shifts in unconditional...

Cette recherche a été menée avant la mise en place obligatoire des normes IFRS aux sociétés cotées. Elle trouve son origine dans le constat du hiatus entre l'importance croissante des marques, et plus largement du capital immatériel, dans les actifs de l'entreprise et la faiblesse...

This study investigates whether European firms reporting under domestic GAAPs exhibit major differences while examining the relationship between their economic (financial, operating and competitive) performance and their recognized intangible investment (RII). Using a five-European-country...