“…Alcaniz et al (2015) explored the Initial Public Offerings' (IPOs) prospectuses, and García-Meca et al (2005) focused on examining reports issued by financial analysts, while, according to Tejedo-Romero and Araujo (2016), the levels of voluntary information collected in the annual reports directly refer to the amount of information that companies publish in the media, either in environmental reports, responsibility reports, company website, reports from financial analysts etc. Over the last decades, the number of studies referring to the disclosure of IC information has increased (García-Meca et al, 2005, Goebel, 2015, Rodrigues et al, 2017, Yi & Davey, 2010. Many of them are based on the initial framework of Sveiby (1997), later modified by Guthrie and Petty (2000) and replicated by other authors (Abeysekera & Guthrie, 2005;Bozzolan, Favotto, Ricceri, 2003;Oliveras et al, 2008;Tejedo-Romero & Alfaro-Cortés, 2014 to classify IC information into categories composed of a series of specific intangible elements.…”