This study investigates how web-based voluntary disclosure affects the relation between earnings quality and information asymmetry, considering governance attributes. Our results show that both earnings quality and web-based disclosure are associated with reduced information asymmetry. In...

This paper studies whether IFRS adoption and the country's legal regime affect the value relevance of discretionary accruals under environmental uncertainty (measured by sales variability). The sample includes France and UK domiciles, providing a code/common law legal regime partition. We show...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the incidence of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) on stock market assessment of intangibles and voluntary disclosure about innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop three regression models. The first...

L'objet de la presente recherche est de qualifier l'incidence sur la valeur d'une entreprise de la prise en compte, par les investisseurs de son bilan environnemental.

The measurement of a firm's performance is a crucial issue for many of its stakeholders: shareholders, directors, managers and debtholders. In addition, the effectiveness of many management systems (performance evaluation, compensation, strategy implementation) as well as their impact on value...