Researchers are paying an unprecedented level of attention to the role that sustainability disclosures may play in enhancing financial performance. This study, therefore, examines this issue in a developing country context such as Jordan using a panel data set of 1,705 firm-year observations of...

Purpose - The UN Global Compact (GC) is the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative. Signatory companies voluntarily agree to abide by the GC ten principles and explicitly declare compliance with social and human rights, environmental protection, and anti-corruption business...

Disclosure of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics remains almost entirely voluntary, resulting in incomplete and unstandardized data that makes it difficult for stakeholders to collectively compare firms and assess their impact. To align reporting, in 2020 the World Economic Forum...

Purpose of the article: In Nigeria, it is not compulsory for listed companies to report their corporate social responsibility in their financial report. However, some firms are reporting their social responsibility to their stakeholders, while some companies fail to do so. Some studies conducted...