8th EIASM INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP on “INTANGIBLES, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL & EXTRA-FINANCIAL INFORMATION” Grenoble École de Management, Grenoble, France, 27-28 September 2012 in collaboration with Faculty & Department of Economics, University of Ferrara, Italy Grenoble École de Management, Research pole “Immatériels” PROGRAMME THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 08:30 09:15 – 9:30 Registration Welcome Addresses (Room ) Loïck Roche (Director, Grenoble École de Management) Stefano Zambon (University of Ferrara and Co-Chairperson of the Workshop) 09:30 – 10:30 Inaugural Plenary Session – A French Touch (Room ) Chairperson: Stefano Zambon, University of Ferrara Bernard Gumb (Professor, Grenoble École de Management) “Intangible assets and/or intangible liabilities: where do we look from?” Alan Fustec (Managing Partner, Goodwill Management, Observatoire de l’Immatériel) “Best Practices about Intangible Asset Valuation in French Companies” Ignace de Beelde (Professor, Ghent University, Belgium) “Should intangibles be on the balance sheet?” 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:30 PS1: Accounting rules and standards 12:30 – 13:45 Lunch 13:45 – 15:15 PS4: Patents, R&D and technology 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 – 17:00 PS7: Rhetoric and visual approaches 19:30 PS1: Impact of disclosure PS3: Intangibles, risk and value PS5: Intangible investments and firm strategies PS6: Intangibles in SMEs PS8: New trends PS9: Intangibles, development and sustainability WORKSHOP DINNER Restaurant Le Téléphérique La Bastille - Grenoble FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 08:30 – 10:00 PS10: Intangibles and banking 10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break 10:15 – 11:45 PS13: Intangibles in industry 11:45 – 13:15 Lunch 13:15 – 14h45 PS16: Observing practices PS11: Integrated reporting PS12: Knowledge and IC PS14: Extra-financial forms of capital PS15: Managerial perspectives PS17: Modelling and measuring intangibles Conclusive Plenary Session – An International Touch (Room B17) Chairperson: Bernard Gumb, Grenoble École de Management Takayuki Sumita (METI, Japan, and Chairman, WICI) “New Reporting Model to Integrating Material Intangibles into value and performance” 15:00 – 16:30 André Gorius (Innovation Excellence Director, Solvay – Rhodia Sector) "Valuation of R&D intangibles – A Physicist’s Approach" Stefano Zambon (University of Ferrara) "Integrating Reports: Intangibles, Business Model, and Sustainability. An International Perspective" Conferment of the GEM Best Junior Contribution to the Intangibles and IC Theory and Practice Award DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Thursday, 27 September 2012 PS 1 11:00-12:30 Room A301 PS 2 11:00-12:30 Room A303 PS3 11:00-12:30 Room A306 Session Title: Accounting rules and standards Session Title: Impact of disclosure Session Title: Intangibles, risk and value Chairperson: Anne Krebs Chairperson: Thomas List Chairperson: Ignace de Beelde Maximilian Müller, Thorsten Sellhorn, Do accounting rules affect R&D investment? Michela Cordazzo, The influence of intellectual capital on firm’s reporting financial performance Yosra Béjar The impact of intellectual capital on French technology firms’ survival Hanna Silvola, Jari Huikku, Jan Mouritsen Value relevance of goodwill impairment testing? Vivien Beattie, Robin Roslender, Sarah Jane Smith, Balancing on a Tightrope: Relational Capital, Value Creation and Disclosure Véronique Blum, The financial value of a patent: classical or optional methods? Paolo Pietro Biancone The information content of goodwill impairments in Italian listed banks Elissavet Kassotaki, Sandra Cohen Capturing intellectual capital “flows” through content analysis procedure: a new approach in interpreting intellectual capital voluntary disclosures. Susanne Durst, Stefan Wilhelm How to measure knowledge at risk? DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Thursday, 27 September 2012 PS 4 13:45-15:15 Room A301 PS 5 13:45-15:15 Room A303 PS 6 13:45-15:15 Room A306 Session Title: Patents, R&D and technology Session Title: Intangible investments and firm strategies Session Title: Intangibles in SMEs Chairperson: Véronique Blum Chairperson: Michela Cordazzo Chairperson: Nhu Tuyen Lê Deborah Branswijck, Patricia Everaert The influence of myopic R&D investment behavior on firm value and firm performance: evidence from the UK (and Europe) Corentin Vermeulen The role of a dynamic concept in the contribution of intellectual capital to the performance of service providers: a model proposition. Ronald Orth, Kai Mertins, Holger Kohl Perspectives for an integrated reporting in small and medium-sized enterprises Irina Duscher, Impact of R&D costs capitalization on financial reporting of listed biotechnological companies Matti Skoog, Marco Giuliani The relevance of time in accounting. The case of intangibles from a management accounting perspective. Francisco M. Somohano, José Manuel LópezFernández, Francisco Javier Martínez-García The process and outcomes of innovation and its effect on economic performance and the Financial situation of SMEs Thomas List, Wolfgang Schultze Do recognition and disclosure on R&D play substitutive or complementary roles? – Evidence from Germany Ari Lammi, Hannu Vanharanta Measurement and assessment of IC in strategic management Juan Carlos Salazar, M. Paloma Sánchez, Oihana Basilio Intellectual capital and productivity: IC management as support for financing innovation in SMEs DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Thursday, 27 September 2012 PS 7 15:30-17:00 Room A301 PS 8 15:30-17:00 Room A303 PS 9 15:30-17:00 Room A306 Session Title: Rhetoric and visual approaches Session Title: New trends Session Title: Intangibles, development and sustainability Chairperson: Pierluigi Catalfo Chairperson: Alan Fustec Chairperson: Roberto Aprile Jane Davison Intangibles and visual rhetoric Véronique Blum, Gabriele Luculli Patent markets: efficiency conditions for a new "commodity" market Nhu Tuyen Lê Sustainable development spirit and Accounting, What is at stake? Johan Graaf Colouring the numbers - Intellectual capital as a symptomatic quality Wojciech Czakon, Dariusz Lizak The social capital of the firm: are we focusing on the right facet? Cristiana Parisi, Jan Mouritsen Problematizing the relationship between the concepts of intellectual capital and sustainable development Laura Girella Regulating through the “logic of appropriateness” and the “rhetoric of the expert”: the case of intangibles reporting in Germany DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Friday, 28 September 2012 PS10 08:30-10:00 Room A301 PS11 08:30-10:00 Room A303 PS12 08:30-10:00 Room A306 Session Title: Intangibles and banking Session Title: Integrated reporting Session Title: Knowledge and IC: methodological and theoretical Issues Chairperson: Marie-Hélène Bihr Chairperson: Vivien Beattie Chairperson: Elissavet Kassotaki Lei Chen, Jo Danbolt, John Holland Intangibles and bank performance: testing the resource-based theory using mixed methods Roberto Aprile, Elisabetta Magnaghi Integrated reporting: a first analysis of the discussion papers of the framework and of their comment letters Pierluigi Catalfo Methodological tools for the evaluation of intangibles management in research institutions. Some empirical evidence and new remarks Maha Khalked The investment in knowledge assets and the organization performance in the Egyptian banking sector Federica Doni, Andrea Gasperini, Pasquale Pavone The integrated report in the South African mining companies listed on the JSE stock exchange: analysis of non-financial information and impacts on external disclosures Paulina Bednarz-Luczewska Intellectual capital and innovation – Agentic component of IC theory Romilda Mazzotta, Franco Rubino, Giovanni Bronzetti Intellectual capital reporting from social and sustainability reports in financial services Elisabetta Magnaghi, Roberto Aprile Integrated reporting: a theoretical perspective on this critical issue Giuseppe Marzo Ambiguities, dualities and metaphor in intellectual capital research and practice. Some open questions. DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Friday, 28 September 2012 PS13 10:15-11:45 Room A301 PS14 10:15-11:45 Room A303 PS15 10:15-11:45 Room A306 Session Title: Intangibles in industry Session Title: Extra-financial forms of capital Session Title: Managerial perspectives Chairperson: Matti Skoog Chairperson: Yosra Béjar Chairperson: Stefano Zambon Luminita Enache, Antonio Parbonetti Corporate governance and product-related voluntary disclosure. An analysis of biotech firms Vassilios Christos Naoum, Orestes Vlimas, George Venieris Organization capital and sticky behaviour of selling, general and administrative expenses Anne Krebs Dispersed, ambidextrous organizations and knowledge management IC inscriptions as devices for knowledge management Lidia Oliveira, Paula Azevedo Intangibles reporting through visual images in annual reports: the case study of EDP Energias de Portugal, SA Shibashish Mukherjee Organizational capital: theory and evidence on the cross section of risks and returns Johan Adolphson, Jan Eklöf Profitability and customer satisfaction as intangible Patrizia de Corato, Intellectual capital reporting in Lebanon: opportunity, influence, and implementation barriers in the telecommunication industry Marie-Hélène Bihr, Rosanas Marta-Camprodon The legitimacy of extra-financial criteria Christopher Williams, Soo Hee Lee Intangible subsidiary capital in the multinational corporation DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS AND PAPER TITLES Friday, 28 September 2012 PS 16 13:00-14:30 Room A301 PS 17 13:00-14:30 Room A302 Session Title: Observing practices Session Title: Modelling and measuring intangibles Chairperson: Giuseppe Marzo Chairperson: Maha Khalked Maria Assunta Baldini, Giovanni Liberatore Corporate governance and intellectual capital disclosure. An empirical analysis of the Italian listed companies Viktoria Zerr Estimating a measure of intellectual capital to test its determinants Bernard Gumb, Alan Fustec The story of the French touch on “Immatériels”: a retrospective Lei Chen John Holland, Jo Danbolt Rethinking banking models using a grounded theory model of bank intangibles Otto A. Altenburger, Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti, Julia Schmidt Ten years after the introduction of the intellectual capital report for Austrian Universities LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ADOLPHSON, JOHAN UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM DEPT. OF ACCOUNTING & FINANCE 10691 106 91 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN Tel: 46 8 162182 Fax: 46 8 153054 Email: jad@fek.su.se BEDNARZ-LUCZEWSKA, PAULINA KOZMINSKI UNIVERSITY, UL. JAGIELLONSKA 57/59 03-301 WARSZAWA POLAND Email: pbednarzluczewska@kozminski.edu.pl CAMPRODON, MARTA IQS VIA AUGUSTA 390 08017 BARCELONA SPAIN Tel: 0034 669058451 Email: marta.camprodon@iqs.edu ALTENBURGER, OTTO A. 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