European companies that are larger than a specific size have had to comply with reporting requirements on non-financial topics since 2017 under the European Union's Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014/95/EU), thereby making non-financial reporting (NFR) mandatory. To the best of the author's...

Researchers are paying an unprecedented level of attention to the role that sustainability disclosures may play in enhancing financial performance. This study, therefore, examines this issue in a developing country context such as Jordan using a panel data set of 1,705 firm-year observations of...

Climate change carries risks that need to be mitigated by all parties, including companies because it affects company value. Many studies find that voluntary disclosure positively affects firm value in developing countries. This study aims to examine the effect of voluntary disclosure (CSR and...

This study compares the quality of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and reporting of firms operating in Africa listed in Western economies and firms exclusively listed on the African stock exchange, using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) CSR checklist. Interpretive content...

This paper examines the impact of various corporate governance characteristics on the disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in the context of developing markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used data from the annual reports of the top 100 companies listed on the Ho...

Consistent with the notion that sustainability reporting (also known as corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting) signals an ethical corporate culture and high monitoring, this study seeks to determine whether sustainability reporting reduces real earnings management (REM) practices and...

The aim of this paper is to investigates whether the level of materiality, stakeholder engagement, and corporate governance disclosure enhance the quality of sustainability reporting. The quality measured the by four indexed information dimensions: relative quantity disclosure, density,...