We consider sealed- and open-bid total-cost procurement auctions where two attributes are used for contract award decisions: price, which is bid by the supplier, and a fixed cost adjustment, which is included by the buyer to capture nonprice factors such as logistics costs. Suppliers know only...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between corporate environmental disclosure (CED) and earnings management (EM) and the impact of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms on that association. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses performance-matched...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate what causes a firm to choose between a business segment and a geographic segment as a primary segment for its segmental information disclosure. It seeks to examine Malaysian firms' experiences as they disclose segmental information under...

We analyze costly information acquisition and information revelation in groups in a dynamic setting. Even when group members have perfectly aligned interests the group may inefficiently delay decisions. When deadlines are far away, uninformed group members freeride on each others' efforts to...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an account of the quantity, location and intentions behind companies' biodiversity disclosure. Design/methodology/approach – This study applies a mixed methods approach to the examination of the quantity and location of biodiversity...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in voluntary carbon disclosure between developing and developed countries and the role of resource availability in explaining these differences. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a sample consisting of 2,045 large...

For the world, 2002 was a big year for financial fraud. Bankruptcy followed bankruptcy starting with Enron succeeded by Tyco and WorldCom. While there are many different types of fraud, financial statement fraud represents the largest amount of dollar loss to fraudulent activities. With revenue...

We investigate the relationship between information disclosure and depositor behaviour in the Chinese banking sector. Specifically, we enquire whether enhanced information disclosure enables investors to more effectively infer a banking institution's risk profile, thereby influencing their...