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The value relevance of corporate financial and nonfinancial information provided by the integrated report: A systematic review
Author(s) -
Veltri Stefania,
Silvestri Antonella
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.2556
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , value (mathematics) , investor relations , phenomenon , integrated reporting , empirical research , business , accounting , value creation , marketing , strategic management , political science , industrial organization , computer science , sustainability , epistemology , ecology , philosophy , law , biology , machine learning
The integrated report (IR) is a new reporting tool connecting financial and nonfinancial information, in one report. The aim of IR is to present the firm's value creation over time. In recent years, IR has received both increasing academic and professional interest. Recent researches have focused on the potentialities (and criticalities) of IR and on its determinants, while there is a dearth of studies examining the value relevance of the information disclosed through IR for investors. Furthermore, in the literature, there are two competing views on IR usefulness for investors, one positing IR as beneficial, the other, detrimental to investors. Our study intends to contribute to the existing literature by systematically reviewing the empirical studies conducted until now in a thorough and unbiased manner, allowing more general conclusions to be drawn about the phenomenon than is possible from individual studies and to give some insights for further research activities.