Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of governance on information asymmetry between managers and investors. Hence, the paper seeks to extend prior voluntary disclosure research. Design/methodology/approach – The paper investigates how a firm's governance maps into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure, corporate governance and financial analysts’ information environment, as proxied by their ability to forecast a firm’s earnings. Hence, we extend prior voluntary...

Purpose: This article aims to explore whether a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) transparency alleviates a firm's cash holdings. Design/methodology/approach: CSR transparency ratings encompass both the quantity and...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to investigate whether social disclosure and environmental disclosure have a substituting or a complementing effect in reducing information asymmetry between managers and stock market participants Design/methodology/approach – This study attempts to provide...

Corporate environmental reporting (CER) has been studied from different angles. In this paper we focus on CER from a neo-institutional perspective. CER could indeed be considered as a set of structures and practices that became institutionalised over time. Organizations derive their legitimacy...

The purpose of this study is to provide an integrated analysis of corporate environmental communication strategies using stakeholder theory. More precisely, we argue that there is a symbiotic relationship between managerial decisions with respect to environmental disclosure and stakeholders. On...

The purpose of this study is to assess how a firm’s disclosure regarding its web-based performance disclosure maps into financial analysts’ earnings forecasts. We assert and empirically test that the determination of a firm’s web-based performance disclosure and financial analysts’...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO power features and externally observable hubris attributes may determine the likelihood of financial misreporting. Design/methodology/approach – The analyses are based on a sample of 16 Canadian firms...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess if a firm’s ethical lapses, which result from unethical behavior or actions, influence its social disclosure (SD) practices as well as how ethical lapses affect both the firm’s legitimacy within society and its standing in financial markets....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether formally disclosing an earnings before interests, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) number reduces the information asymmetry between managers and investors beyond the release of GAAP earnings. The paper also assess if...