The nature and extent of voluntary intellectual capital disclosures by Australian and UK biotechnology companies

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 519-536

  White, Gregory ^a   Lee, Alina ^a   Yuningsih, Yuni ^a   Nielsen, Christian ^b   Bukh, Per Nikolaj ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Disclosure; Intellectual capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149377327     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691931011085669     Document Type: Article

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