This study investigates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures influence the performance of listed Saudi Arabian companies. The study used unbalanced panel data obtained from the Bloomberg database (2010-2020). The results show that ESG has significantly reduced TOBINSQ but...

This paper examines some novel corporate governance-based determinants of risk disclosures among index listed Finnish companies. Firms' risk disclosures are analysed in terms of their quantity and coverage. We focus on two board characteristics not examined in prior related literature: (1)...

Companies worldwide increasingly engaged in corporate social responsibility disclosure, particularly corporate environmental disclosure (CED) has gained increasing importance since the 1980s. Reporting environmental performance has become a fundamental corporate governance mechanism to improve...

This paper examines the effect of family ownership on firm voluntary disclosure and the associated capital market consequences. I use a randomly assigned family trait, the gender of the firstborn child of the firm's family owner, as an instrumental variable and find that family ownership of a...

The study examined the effect of corporate governance on sustainability disclosures. The data regarding corporate governance and sustainability reporting were gathered from annual report and accounts of 12 listed industrial goods companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period 2010-2017....

This paper aims at investigating and scrutinizing prior literature of human rights disclosures, corporate governance mechanisms and their effect on firm performance in an attempt to unveil the influence of non-financial disclosures such as human rights on the corporation’s financial...

This study investigates the potential influence of several pertinent factors including R&D intensity, directors' education, and firm size towards ESG disclosure. This study utilised samples from top 10 companies listed in 6 (six) different Global Islamic Indices with a three-year observation...

The study examines the effect of internal governance mechanisms on the Internet Reporting of Strategic Information (IRSI) in an emerging market economy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) It relies on the agency theory and the innovation diffusion theory to generate testable hypotheses and augment...