Across time, companies have increasingly made public commitments to sustainable development and to reducing their impacts on climate change. Management Remuneration Plans (MRPs) are a key mechanism to motivate managers to achieve corporate goals. We review the MRPs negotiated with key management...

The opening of the Australian economy in a globalised world has led to Australian garment and retail corporations moving their manufacturing overseas and acquiring goods from overseas providers. This is usually better for the corporations' bottom-line, as they can purchase goods overseas at a...

This paper explores public concerns about corruption and bribery in Australian local government and provides guidance for policy-makers on how to control bribery and corruption. Lack of regulation is a major reason why local councils are not taking appropriate anti-corruption or bribery...

This study examines whether the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) corporate governance principles and regulations have influenced anti-bribery disclosure practices by the top 100 ASX-listed companies from 2001-2011. Nineteen specific anti-bribery issues were considered under two general categories...

Reports on the results of a survey of various groups of annual report users as to the importance, or “materiality”, of environmental information to decisions they may wish to make. Also investigates how environmental information is ranked in importance relative to various other items of...