Colouring the numbers - on the role of intellectual capital in financial reporting

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 376-394

  Graaf, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conference call; Disclosure; Earnings; Earnings announcement; Framing; Information disclosure; Intellectual capital; Performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880157827     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JIC-03-2013-0037     Document Type: Article

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