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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of board size on firms disclosing more, rather than less, strategic and tactical intellectual capital resources using the top 26 of the 52 firms ranked by the Nairobi Stock Exchange for market capitalization in 2002 and in 2003. This...

The study of internal corporate governance mechanisms such as board characteristics plays a crucial role in explaining variation in corporate governance and disclosure practices across firms. The effectiveness of such corporate governance mechanism in maintaining healthy relationship between...