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Intellectual Capital Disclosure in Sustainability Reports

Intellectual Capital Disclosure in Sustainability Reports
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Author(s): Giovanni Bronzetti (Università della Calabria, Italy), Romilda Mazzotta (Università della Calabria, Italy), Graziella Sicoli (Università della Calabria, Italy)and Maria Assunta Baldini (Università di Firenze, Italy)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 20
Source title: Intellectual Capital Strategy Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), Robert D. Tennyson (University of Minnesota, USA)and Jingyuan Zhao (University of Québec at Montréal, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3655-2.ch011

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the level and the quality of voluntary disclosures of Intellectual Capital (IC) in the sustainability reports on a sample of Italian listed companies. The authors conducted an analysis of twelve sustainability reports for two years (2009-2010). These are related to six firms selected among the most capitalized 37 Italian listed companies. To investigate the “level of disclosure,” the authors identified the presence of IC information, while to evaluate the “IC quality,” they constructed a voluntary disclosure index based on content analysis. IC information disclosure is more likely present in sustainability reports of firms with a higher levels of application of the Global Reporting Initiative framework. The results confirm that the sustainability report can adequately represent the intellectual capital, especially in order to understand its role in the firm and the interaction with other variables present in the firm.

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