Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and implications of the actual techniques used in the measuring and reporting of intellectual capital.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a literature review.FindingsThe paper demonstrates that the commodification of intellectual capital, rather than solving the contradictions accompanying market value maximisation, simply shifts these contradictions to a new location.Practical implicationsThe wide range of intellectual capital definitions, frameworks, and indices allow firms to choose intellectual capital reporting which will justify maximising their market value, resulting in the construction of data in intellectual capital reporting that hides the reality of the commodification of labour.Originality/valueCommodification of labour through intellectual capital practices is useful to regulators in policy making and accounting standard setting.
Subject
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Accounting
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