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Rapid developments in information and communications technology, especially
with regard to Internet, have caused a substantial impact on the delivery and dissemination of
business information. Internet reporting is expected to bring significant benefits to reporting
companies, including facilitating access to potential investors an other stakeholders,
disseminating information more quickly, more widely and at less cost, providing a platform to
integrate different technologies and reducing the cost of providing hard copy annual reports.
In this paper, we have examined the extent and the way companies use Internet to provide
information about their intangibles. We have established for the Standard & Poor´s GLOBAL
100 Index companies, different Internet intangibles disclosure indexes, and we have contrasted
which variables explain the disclosure of this intangible information on Internet. Results show
that the region of origin, especially in the European companies, and the intensity of the
intangible expenditures are the main factors that explain the differences in the extent of corporate
intangible disclosure on Internet.
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