The study aims to investigate the impacts of corporate social responsibility disclosure and board characteristics such as (board independence, the board size, and gender diversity) on corporate performance. In order to find out the impact, this study employed a quantitative method using...

Over the past decade, Vietnam has opened the market and attended in large economic organization like ASEAN Free Trade Area, ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Therefore, the...

Our study investigates the interlink between liquidity, corporate governance and firm value with the adoption of meta-analysis. The final sample consists of 428 studies extracted from 55 papers, covering 632,196 firm-year observations in a worldwide scope. The diversity in data is believed to...

Development banks were designed to achieve the government's economic priorities that were not adequately addressed by the banking industry. Studies, however, show that the activities of some development banks in Nigeria have not been as impacting as expected for different reasons, which include...

The insurance industry is a contributor to gross domestic product (GDP) in the Ghanaian economy and, thus, effort at improving its financial soundness through tax planning (TP) could enhance its level of GDP contribution. Previous studies on TP have been conducted mainly among the non-financial...

The study examined the effect of the major component of an internal control system according to the COSO framework on the financial performance of SMEs registered with the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) in Ghana. The study further examined the moderating role of corporate governance...

The study aimed to identify factors that can be used in models that predict going concern of enterprises. The study employed the best-worst method of multi-criteria decision-making technique to evaluate and rank the factors. Twenty-one potential determinants were identified from the literature...

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of innovation between corporate governance and firm performance. The theoretical foundations of this study were the agency and resource dependence theories. The data were collected from annual reports of non-financial firms listed on the...

A vibrant financial sector has a lot to offer towards the growth and development of an economy. It is in this regard that investor confidence matters most to the sector. Although the financial sector in the sub-Saharan African region is still growing, there are some crises in the sector that...

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, board gender diversity (BGEND) and real earnings management (REM). It also investigates how the relationship between CSR reporting and REM differs between gender-diverse and non-diverse firms. Content...