Human capital is one of the most important organizational resources. Nevertheless, companies’ internal and external management control and reporting instruments only marginally take human capital into account. The purpose of this paper is therefore twofold: In the first section, we empirically...

Currently, companies spend a great deal of effort on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosures. CSR disclosure relates to the provision of information on companies’ environmental and social performance. From an economic perspective, companies might disclose this information to avoid or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if human capital information voluntarily provided by German companies is value‐relevant. Design/methodology/approach – By means of word‐based content analysis, human capital information is extracted from German companies’ annual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether narrative corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures (the provision of textual information on companies’ environmental and social performance to external stakeholders) are associated with firm value in Germany....