Discourses of transparency in the intellectual capital reporting debate: Moving from generic reporting models to management defined information

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 847-854

  Nielsen, Christian ^a   Madsen, Mona Toft ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business reporting; Discourse analysis; Intellectual capital; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049109464     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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