This study is interested in the relationship between firm's characteristics (R&D intensity, industry, American or British stock market listing, R&D accounting method used, and size) and its strategy of communication on its R&D activities. We have analyzed annual reports of firms belonging to the...

This paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D expenditures. The firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and costs of R&D, expensing a larger portion of R&D when the benefits occur in the long-run and capitalizing a larger portion when the benefits occur in the...

[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...

Management control is a very difficult task when applied to innovation. For some researchers, it's even an impossible mission. Despite this, our paper presents a theoretical framework issued from a literature review and based on Simons research (1995). This framework is used to understand how...

During the last decades, research in the field of management control has been characterised by the emergence of a great variety of trends which are referred to as “critical”. This study reviews critical management control research in Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) from 1976...

What are the determinants of accounting and management control innovations diffusion ? This paper attempts to answer such a question by first giving a definition to the concept of managerial innovation. Second it compares the results of the study of the diffusion of three innovations of this...

Accounting for research and development (R&D) costs is an open issue. SFAS N°2 mandates that all R&D costs are immediately expensed. International standards prescribe a capitalization of R&D costs if they meet certain criteria (IAS 38). Recent research papers (Healy et al., 2002; Lev and...

The article intends to provide a global vision of the broad and heterogeneous field of intangible capital and its different components and approaches. Some basic concepts are examined, such as those of intellectual, human or technological capital from a business and macroeconomic perspective....

This paper develops an empirical approach using econometric techniques for panel data which aims to contribute to the reduction/elimination of the deviation between the book and market value of firms. Based on 20 of the firms with the largest number of patents granted between 1996 and 2006, the...

Neste artigo elabora-se uma abordagem empírica, com recurso a técnicas econométricas apropriadas para dados em painel, que visa contribuir para a redução (ou mesmo eliminação) do desvio entre os valores contabilístico e de mercado das empresas. Tendo por base 20 das empresas que mais...