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We analyze managerial discourse in corporate communication (‘CEO-speak') during a six month period following a legitimacy-threatening event in the form of an incident in a German nuclear power plant. As discourses express specific stances expressed by a group of people who share particular...
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We examine whether and how German and US investment professionals use corporate social responsibility (hereafter, CSR) information when making personal investment decisions and recommendations to clients. Using an experiment, we find that both German and US investment professionals use CSR...
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This paper examines the economic determinants that lead German firms to adopt value-based management and control systems (VBMSs). Further, we investigate whether firms' operating performance improves after VBMS adoption. Using a hand-collected data set of German listed firms covering 1,575...
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Employer behavior (“Arbeitgeberverhalten”) plays an essential role when it comes to understanding Human Resource Management (HRM). However, rather few studies actually seem to take the concrete behavior of organizations as employers into account. Instead, German textbooks and journals are...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained importance over the last years. Yet, only few studies have investigated CSR in German family firms. This study analyzes the CSR communication of 714 listed German family and non-family firms using a content analysis of CSR mission statements. We find...
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Intangible assets are regarded as the future value drivers of company performance. However hardly anything is known about the actual importance and influence of intangible assets. To fill this gap we analyze the German stock market index DAX and accomplish a survey of the German Certified Public...
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disclosure is value-relevant, we might assume that the level of IC disclosure impacts a firm's MBV ratio. Thus, we empirically … analyze the relations between firms' IC disclosure and their MBV ratio for 60 German listed firms over a five year period with … multilevel regression and path analysis. On a firm level, we find no evidence for a significant influence of IC disclosure on the …
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This paper examines both the materiality of intangibles and the related disclosure quality under IFRS in the notes of … intangibles-to-equity (materiality) and a disclosure index of our design (disclosure quality) that measures both the volume and … presentation of information. Furthermore and contrary to the majority of prior studies on the disclosure of intangibles, our index …
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In economies with a growing service sector, the importance of intangible assets like brands, customer relationships, and organizational capabilities is rapidly increasing, as is the importance of information and knowledge for the production of goods and services. New concepts in such areas as...
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This paper is the first multi-country investigation of comprehensive corporate risk disclosure. Based on a detailed … content analysis of 160 annual reports, we analyze the attributes and the quantity of risk disclosure and its association with … disclosure is most prevalent in management reports, concentrates on financial risk categories, and comprises little quantitative …
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