Intellectual capital disclosure, cost of finance and firm value

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1536-1554

  Orens, Raf ^a   Aerts, Walter ^b   Lybaert, Nadine ^c  

^a Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Intellectual capital; Internet; Western Europe; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049106182     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740911004673     Document Type: Article

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