Intellectual capital — broadly defined to include nonphysical sources of value such as patents and copyrights, computer software, organizational processes and know-how — has a long history of being undervalued and excluded from measures of economic productivity and wealth. In recent years,...

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more information after the AIPA and a decrease in innovation...

We examine the spillover effect of public firm innovation disclosures on the patent trading market. Relative to equity markets, the patent market is decentralized and rife with information frictions, yet it serves as an important mechanism through which innovations reallocate to the most...

Ensuring compliance of sustainability reports, especially Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting, with the EU Taxonomy is essential in the European Union. In parallel, a significant transformation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be observed, shifting from task-specific models...

We examine the impact of technological competition on voluntary innovation disclosure around the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (“AIA”). The AIA moves the U.S. patent system from the first-to-invent to first-inventor-to-file system and induces a patent “race”...

Artificial Intelligence is an evolving area of research within the auditing and accounting community. It is the auditor’s responsibility to obtain appropriate and sufficient audit evidence based on vast datasets. Therefore, AI is essential for an auditor to derive a reliable decision....

This paper examines the real effects of financial information dissemination on innovation. Broader dissemination of corporate disclosures can reduce the uncertainty associated with the expected value of R&D investments and increase clarity about the profitability of the underlying innovation to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among research and development expenses (R&D), market value and firm performance. Additionally, what is also questioned is, whether the relationship between R&D and market value of the firm is linear.Design/methodology/approach...

Consistent with theoretical models that show disclosure can reduce uncertain investments, we find that mandating risk disclosure is negatively associated with corporate innovation. Using a textual analysis of a large sample of 10-K filings for US firms, we identify a negative relationship...

Although robotic process automation (RPA) usage is growing rapidly in accounting, concerns are emerging regarding the internal controls and overall governance structure surrounding RPA. To help address these concerns, we use a design science research approach and work with a Fortune 500 company...