Board characteristics and sustainability reporting: a case of listed firms in East Africa

PN Githaiga, JK Kosgei - … : The international journal of business in …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of board characteristics on
sustainability reporting among listed firms in East Africa. Design/methodology/approach The …

The role of dissemination in market liquidity: Evidence from firms' use of Twitter™

E Blankespoor, GS Miller, HD White - The accounting review, 2014 - publications.aaahq.org
Firm disclosures often reach only a portion of investors, which results in information
asymmetry among investors and, therefore, lower market liquidity. This issue is particularly …

The role of the business press as an information intermediary

BJ Bushee, JE Core, W Guay… - Journal of accounting …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates whether the business press serves as an information intermediary.
The press potentially shapes firms' information environments by packaging and …

Financial reporting frequency, information asymmetry, and the cost of equity

R Fu, A Kraft, H Zhang - Journal of accounting and economics, 2012 - Elsevier
Using hand-collected data on firms' interim reporting frequency from 1951 to 1973, we
examine the impact of financial reporting frequency on information asymmetry and the cost …

Carbon disclosure, contextual factors, and information asymmetry: The case of physical risk reporting

F Schiemann, A Sakhel - European Accounting Review, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The paper focusses on the reporting of climate change-related physical risks. Drawing on
data from the CDP questionnaire for 717 European companies over three years (2011 …

The effect of reporting frequency on the timeliness of earnings: The cases of voluntary and mandatory interim reports

M Butler, A Kraft, IS Weiss - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We examine whether financial reporting frequency affects the speed with which accounting
information is reflected in security prices. For a sample of 28,824 reporting-frequency …

Consequences of interim reporting: A literature review and future research directions

P Kajüter, A Lessenich, M Nienhaus… - European Accounting …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides the first comprehensive literature review on interim reporting based on
112 papers published between 1961 and 2020. The review focuses on both the firm-specific …

Framing controversial actions: Regulatory focus, source credibility, and stock market reaction to poison pill adoption

EY Rhee, PC Fiss - Academy of Management Journal, 2014 - journals.aom.org
We contribute to the research on organizational accounts by examining the role of different
framing languages and the credibility of the frame articulator on justifying controversial …

The real effects of mandatory quarterly reporting

J Ernstberger, B Link, M Stich… - The Accounting …, 2017 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper examines how mandatory quarterly reporting affects managers' business
decisions in terms of real activities manipulations. For our analyses, we use the setting of the …

The substitutive relation between voluntary disclosure and corporate governance in their effects on firm performance

L Enache, K Hussainey - Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2020 - Springer
Prior literature shows that financial disclosures and corporate governance both impact firm
performance. This paper documents an important topic that has been overlooked in the prior …