We examine the association between ICT investment, corporate governance and firm performance. Using an international sample of 62,199 firm-year observations from 42 countries, we find that ICT investment and corporate governance mechanisms (i.e., board independence and foreign ownership) on...

Using data from ten developed and seven emerging countries, we analyse stock market's volatility and the macroeconomic factors that influence stock market's volatility from January 2001 till December 2012. We use standard historical volatility model followed by Jones et al. (1998) and Andersen...

We examine the impact of COVID-19 on changes in firm value, and the moderating role of firm-level sustainability performance on this relationship. We find that firms domiciled in countries where the COVID-19 impact is more devastating experience greater decline in firm value. The negative impact...

Purpose – This study examines the association of environmental sustainability, governance factors and national culture with COVID-19 impact. We seek to draw implications for thinking and researching environmental accountability at the higher level than the...

This study examines the association of environmental sustainability, governance factors and national culture with COVID-19 impact. Using a sample of 44 countries, we find that that countries with a higher level of corporate carbon emissions suffered from higher COVID-19 impact. Further,...