Over the past two decades, the reporting frameworks used within the public sectors of a wide variety of jurisdictions have undergone significant change. Much of this change has arguably been relatively incremental, resulting in reporting frameworks still being cast in highly traditional form. At...

Increasingly, researchers in the field of Intellectual capital (IC) need to be able to justify the specific research methods they use in the collection of the empirical data that they examine to support opinions regarding the merit of different approaches to managing and reporting Intellectual...

There are two aims of this introductory article: first, to draw attention to the gaps in the research literature; and second to stimulate further accounting and management research regarding intellectual capital by posing several possible research questions. Suggests that critical and social...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine contemporary trends in enhanced business reporting (EBR) and the development of a policy agenda for EBR. The paper aims to build on a submission to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) advisory committee on improvements to financial...

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...

The rise of the “new economy”, one principally driven by information and knowledge, is attributed to the increased prominence of intellectual capital (IC) as a business and research topic. Intellectual capital is implicated in recent economic, managerial, technological, and sociological...

This study reports the results of an empirical examination of Australian annual reporting of intellectual capital. The findings suggest that the development of a model for reporting intangibles is piecemeal and not widely spread. The outcomes of our exploratory investigation are threefold....

The rise of the “new economy”, one principally driven by information and knowledge, international competitiveness and changing patterns of interpersonal activities is attributed to the increased prominence of intellectual capital (IC) as a management and research topic. There is indeed much...

To date, managing intellectual capital has focussed on maximising possibilities to create knowledge, while minimising chances of losing knowledge. However, effective intellectual capital management should consider another dimension: orphan knowledge. Orphan knowledge relates to questions such...

Examines the new challenges that have been posed by the information society and the new demands posed on management. The term “knowledge‐based economy” has become universal, the rules of business are being rewitten and the industrial era enterprise models are no longer adequate to meet the...