Intellectual capital disclosure from sell-side analyst perspective

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 294-306

  Abhayawansa, Subhash ^a   Abeysekera, Indra ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content management; Information disclosure; Intellectual capital; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049115480     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691930910952678     Document Type: Article

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