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Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital

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5. C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong><br />

Krishanthi Ganga Vithana et al.<br />

The literature review evaluated <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> findings <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> subject human capital; covering HC valuati<strong>on</strong>, HC<br />

accounting, disclosure and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> value relevance <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC reporting undertaken using different<br />

methodologies. However, through this extensive review, it is identified that researchers are moving<br />

around <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> topic human capital, addressing different aspect in an ad-hoc manner ra<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r than linking<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m with previous studies to give a holistic picture. Many human capital disclosure studies have<br />

been limited to ei<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r valuati<strong>on</strong> or c<strong>on</strong>tent analysis while some intellectual capital disclosure studies<br />

have adopted different approaches such as VAIC (Chan, 2009a; Chan, 2009b; Chen et al, 2005; Tan<br />

et al, 2008), event study (Dumay and Tull, 2007), etc. Fur<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r, <strong>on</strong>e comm<strong>on</strong> limitati<strong>on</strong> with HC studies<br />

is that <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> descriptive nature <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> research undertaken where very limited or no attempts are found <strong>on</strong><br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>oretical reas<strong>on</strong>ing behind HC disclosure and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> impact or c<strong>on</strong>sequences <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC disclosure.<br />

The absence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a standard framework to quantify qualitatively disclosed HC informati<strong>on</strong> might explain<br />

many <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> above observati<strong>on</strong>s. This indicates <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> need for future studies to adopt c<strong>on</strong>text specific<br />

disclosure indices to improve <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> validity <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> findings as well as to extend <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC disclosure related<br />

researches towards <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>oretical reas<strong>on</strong>ing and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> value relevance <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> practice. Fur<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rmore, ra<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r<br />

than mere word count, line count or sentence count in estimating <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC disclosure an objective<br />

mechanism needs to be developed looking at <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> aspects <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC as intellectual capital management.<br />

With this regards <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> well-known intellectual capital management framework balanced scorecard<br />

(Kaplan and Nort<strong>on</strong>, 1992) would be suggested as <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> four perspectives will provide a basis for<br />

categorizati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> HC attributes for grouping purposes and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> presence or absence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> informati<strong>on</strong> in<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> levels <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> balanced scorecard could provide an objective criteria for quantificati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> extent <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

HC disclosure. This justifies <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> fact that employees who lead <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> organizati<strong>on</strong>s towards strategic<br />

success are accounted in a way that <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> strategic positi<strong>on</strong>ing <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m too is well reflected.<br />

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