Determinants of quality corporate governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Kenya and South Africa

N Waweru - Managerial Auditing Journal, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–This study aims to examine the factors influencing the quality of corporate
governance in South Africa (SA) and Kenya. Firm-level variables including performance, firm …

Stakeholder pressure and greenhouses gas voluntary disclosures

L Chithambo, V Tauringana, I Tingbani… - Business Strategy and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports managers' perceived importance of various stakeholders' pressure in
their greenhouse gas (GHG) disclosure decisions. We also report on which stakeholders …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of ownership structure on firm performance: Evidence from Jordan

MAA Zraiq, FHB Fadzil - … Journal of Accounting, Finance and Risk …, 2018 - researchgate.net
This study is an attempt to achieve the main objective by examining the association between
ownership structure and firm performance of the Jordanian firms. This study used OLS …

Ownership structure and voluntary disclosure: A synthesis of empirical studies

H Khlif, K Ahmed, M Souissi - Australian Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we meta-analyse 69 empirical studies assessing the association between
corporate voluntary disclosure and ownership concentration and types, and how institutional …

The effect of corporate governance on firm performance in Jordan

ZMS Marashdeh - 2014 - clok.uclan.ac.uk
Due to widespread corporate scandals and failures around the world, there has been a
renewed interest in the effect of corporate governance on firm performance. The majority of …

Corporate governance and voluntary risk and forward-looking disclosures

MM Elgammal, K Hussainey, F Ahmed - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on risk
and forward-looking disclosures in Qatar. Design/methodology/approach The authors …

[图书][B] Intellectual capital disclosure practices and effects on the cost of equity capital: UK evidence

M Mangena, RH Pike, J Li - 2010 - bradscholars.brad.ac.uk
There has been much research investigating the economic consequences of information
disclosure. Christensen et al.(2007) suggest that such research has been motivated, in the …

[PDF][PDF] Board composition, firm characteristics, and voluntary disclosure: The case of Jordanian firms listed on the Amman stock exchange

IISM Sartawi, RM Hindawi, R Bsoul - International Business …, 2014 - academia.edu
This study examines the impact of board composition on the level of voluntary disclosure in
the annual reports of listed Jordanian firms. Content analysis is used to collect the required …

Analysing corporate governance and accountability practices from an African neo-patrimonialism perspective: Insights from Kenya

D Kimani, S Ullah, D Kodwani, P Akhtar - Critical Perspectives on …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines corporate governance (CG) and corporate accountability practices in
the African context, by focusing on the case of Kenya. Our data comprises a combination of …

[HTML][HTML] La composición del consejo de administración y la estructura accionaria como factores explicativos de la transparencia en el gobierno corporativo en …

GCB Turrent, MLS García - Estudios gerenciales, 2015 - Elsevier
El objetivo del trabajo consistió en obtener evidencia empírica de la relación entre la
estructura del consejo de administración y la composición de la propiedad, y el nivel de …