Until now, there has been no theoretical foundation that explains why organizations implement whistle-blowing systems. By understanding whistle-blowing systems as an instrument that is desired by society, the legitimacy theory could be transferred to the whistle-blowing concept. A survey of...

The interest in corporate social responsibility has grown considerably and so is the practice of its reporting. The CSR reporting is an output of sustainability accounting. The aim of this study is to determine the factors of corporate social reporting of the banks in Bosnia & Herzegovina,...

Accounting, economic, social and political, and slack resources theories provide different perspectives to addressing corporate social responsibility in relation to disclosure, corporate financial performance e.t.c. This paper aims to identify the determinants financial and non financial of...

It is a truism that some industries are controversial either because the processes employed or the resulting products, for instance, can potentially harm the well-being of people. The controversy that surrounds certain industries can sharply polarise public opinion and debate. In this article,...

We examine the relationship between corporate governance and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures in the annual reports of Bangladeshi companies. A legitimacy theory framework is adopted to understand the extent to which corporate governance characteristics, such as...

In the past, most CSR researchers have relied on stakeholder theory (SHT) as the basis for explaining corporate social and environmental disclosures. However, recent evidence from extant studies shows that legitimacy theory (LT) is gaining wider acceptability amongst scholars in their quest to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures over a period of time when the business environment, particularly the Malaysian environment, experienced several significant changes including the recent financial crises and regulatory changes....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine three potential explanations for the corporate choice to disclose environmental capital spending amounts. Design/methodology/approach – Using archival data from a sample of Fortune 500 US firms operating in industries subject to both the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how performance management practices are implicated in the exercise of power with particular reference to the ability of individual managers to balance between more or less institutionalized conceptions of performance while pursuing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically test legitimacy theory by comparing the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures of tax aggressive corporations with those of non-tax aggressive corporations in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – A unique sample of 20...