Intellectual capital reporting media in an Australian industry

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-62

  Guthrie, James ^a   Ward, Leanne ^b   Cuganesan, Suresh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b St George Bank   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content analysis; ICR; ICR framework; Intellectual Capital Reporting; Reporting media

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349088051     PISSN: 14794853     EISSN: 14794861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2008.018882     Document Type: Article

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