This study investigates the extent to which South African (SA) listed corporations voluntarily disclose information on black economic empowerment (BEE) in their annual and sustainability reports and examines the possible motivations and resulting ownership and board factors influencing BEE...

This study investigates the extent to which South African listed corporations voluntarily disclose information on black economic empowerment (BEE) in their annual and sustainability reports using a sample of 75 listed corporations from 2003 to 2009. BEE is a form of socio-economic affirmative...

Manuscript Type: EmpiricalResearch Question/Issue: This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and consequently, examines whether CG can positively moderate the association between corporate financial performance (CFP) and...

We develop an interpretive framework which combines Suchman's (1995) work on the dynamics of organisational legitimacy and Ashforth and Gibbs' (1990) concepts of symbolic and substantive management to investigate how and why public corporations rely on symbolic and substantive social...

Purpose: We investigate the extent of voluntary disclosures in UK higher education institutions' (HEIs) annual reports and examine whether internal governance structures influence disclosure in the period following major reform and funding constraints. Design/Methodology/Approach: We adopt a...

We explore how audit committees (ACs) oversee risk management in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), using semi-structured interviews, attendance at AC meetings and analysis of documentation. We find that the AC's oversight seems constrained by a fixation on the process of risk management,...

Such evaluations of the effectiveness and performance of the committee should be disclosed publicly as a matter of good governance and best practice. Recommendation 8: The governance-related activities (inclusive of the audit committee's activities in relation to controls, risk and value for...

Our study analyses the nature, quality and extent of human resource disclosures (HRDs) of UK Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 firms by relying on a novel disclosure index measuring the depth and breadth of disclosures. Contextually, we focus on the five-year period following the then...