Human capital disclosure and organizational performance: The moderating effects of knowledge intensity and organizational size

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1790-1799

  Lin, Long Sheng ^a   Huang, Ing Chung ^b   Du, Pey Lan ^c   Lin, Tsai Fei ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL QUEMOY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Human capital; Information disclosure; Knowledge economy; Organizational performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869073980     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211279602     Document Type: Article

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