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...

Intellectual Capital Reporting (ICR) is located high on the agenda of government, concerned with the establishment of guidelines and positioning their nation-states as 'knowledgeeconomies' on the global landscape. Voluntary guidelines have been established in certain jurisdictions while others...

This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation into the intellectual capital reporting (ICR) practices of UK companies in four distinct sectors. It differs from prior ICR studies in that it analyses a wide range of external corporate reporting media for their IC content. It finds...

The purpose of this study is to examine the intellectual capital disclosure (hereafter: ICD) among the Greek listed companies and compare this level of disclosure among companies of different sector and capitalisation. For this reason, a content analysis of 49 companies' annual reports was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesise current knowledge on the importance of intellectual capital (IC) information to the capital market.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is by way of literature review. It reviews the empirical research literature from...

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...