Purpose: This paper examines the gap between reporting and managers’ behaviour to challenge the current theoretical underpinnings of intellectual capital (IC) disclosure practice and research. The authors explore how the key features from IC and integrated reporting can be combined to develop...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential for eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to go beyond static reporting. A taxonomy structure of information is developed for providing a knowledge base and insights for an XBRL taxonomy for integrated reporting (IR)....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a new learning and growth perspective for the balanced scorecard (BSC) that includes more specific measures of integrated thinking and value creation to help improve integrated reporting (<IR>). Practical, relevant definitions of these historically...</ir>

Purpose: To present the continuation of a case study by Beck et al. (2017) on an Australian bank (CBD) during the period 2004–2013 by examining whether integrated reporting affects relational capital and helps to repair an organisations’ reputation. Both studies examine how a bank rocked by...

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Intellectual capital disclosure:a structured literature review -- Involuntary disclosure of intellectual capital: is it relevant? -- Killing the balanced scorecard to improve internal disclosure -- Social media networks as drivers for...

This e-book is inspired by our recent review of the IC literature in Guthrie et al. (2012, p. 74) in which we found that the public sector is one of the least addressed areas of IC research. This is surprising considering that the public sector contributes a significant proportion of GDP in most...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Identifying future directions for IC research in education: a literature review -- Ten years of using knowledge balance sheets in Austrian public universities -- Human capital loss in an academic performance measurement system --...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the overall contribution made by the papers presented in this special edition of the Journal of Intellectual Capital . Design/methodology/approach – This article is an editorial based on the author's reflections of the papers presented in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine intellectual capital research (ICR) methods and critically analyse how they have been utilised. The data set for this analysis is based on examining IC papers published in specialist IC and important generalist accounting journals from the...