By analysing the organsiation's management challenges and activities from an IC perspective, the research study made visible the organisation's invisible sources of value creation and identified inconsistencies in the enactment of knowledge resources. The ICVC framework proved particularly...

Many studies that have examined the extent and quality of Corporate Social Reporting (CSR) disclosure have limited their analysis to annual reports. However, there is growing evidence that companies use other media to communicate their corporate social and environmental performance (Frost et al...

Regulators and other industry associations have recognised the importance of considering the industry setting when determining CSR policy and reporting requirements. However, social and environmental impacts vary greatly from industry to industry. The generalised nature of many SE disclosure...

This paper utilises legitimacy theory to explore whether a company's level of profile is related to the company's choice of legitimation strategies.Prior applications of legitimacy theory are extended to the examination of CSR disclosure by focusing on a single industry and customising the...

In recent decades, Australian universities have corporatised. Encouraged by a range of Federal Government policies, universities have adopted New Public Management practices, the relevance of which to academia has been questioned (Ryan, Guthrie and Neumann, 2008; Parker, 2007). The term 'collegial...

Recent years have witnessed a substancia increase in the reporting on social and environmental (SE) issues by major corporations (Gray, 2006). A recent trends indicates that organizations have move on from the terms 'social and environmental reporting', to the more vague term, 'sustainability'...