The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals for Africa suggest the need for these economies to attract substantial amount of foreign direct investments (FDI) to stimulate growth by investing in essential development infrastructures. However, investors are skeptical of opaque corporate...

pt. I. Modern auditing and the IT revolution -- pt. II. Audit of computerised information systems -- pt. III. Audit automation and contemporary IT challenges -- pt. IV. Auditing and IT : theoretical perspectives and practical implications -- pt. V. Auditing and the IT challenge.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that given the dearth of literature on how firms in the African continent have embraced and practiced corporate social responsibility (CSR), this study contributes to the CSR literature by examining managers' perceptions about CSR, structural...

Purpose – This paper aims to reflect the argument that the impetus to engage in socially responsible actions is ultimately reinforced by the perceived belief that doing so will be beneficial to the corporation in the long run. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a...