Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of corporate board attributes, ownership structure and firm-level characteristics on both corporate mandatory and voluntary disclosure behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: Multivariate regression techniques are used to estimate...

Purpose – This study investigates the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on financial risk reporting in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a panel data of 50 non-financial firms belonging to ten industrial sectors listed on the London Stock Exchange in the period...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of internal corporate governance mechanisms on insurance companies' risk-taking in the UK context.Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a panel data of all listed insurance companies on FTSE 350 over the 2005-2014 period. Multivariate...

This paper seeks to contribute to the existing business strategy and the environment literature by examining the effect of governance structures on environmental performance within a unique context of improving environmental governance, policies, regulations and management. Specifically, we...

This paper examines the impact of Sharia supervisory board (SSB) and governance structures on the extent of operational risk disclosures (ORDs), using a sample of 63 Islamic banks from 10 (i.e., Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE) countries in...