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Corporate board diversity and carbon disclosure: evidence from France
(2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine the association between carbon disclosure and board diversity by drawing on a multiple theoretica frameworks that embody five dimensions, namely, board nationality, gender, independence, ... -
Corporate carbon disclosure, carbon performance and corporate firm performance
( Inderscience Publishers , 2021 , Article)The primary objective of this study is to examine the current state of corporate carbon disclosure (CCD) among a sample of FTSE 350 non-financial firms. It also investigates the effect of CCD on firms' carbon emission ... -
Corporate Choice between Conventional Bonds and Sukuk Issuance: Evidence from GCC Countries
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)Although there have been recent developments in respect of the diversification of capital markets in GCC countries, the motivations of the firms issuing Sukuk or conventional bonds have remained largely unexplored. Using ... -
Corporate environmental management: A review and integration of green human resource management and green logistics
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2020 , Article Review)Purpose: Green human resource management (GHRM) and sustainable green logistics (SGLOG) are some of the mechanisms by which sustainable corporate environmental management could be consummated. However, prior studies linking ... -
Corporate financial reporting in Qatar: a study of individual investors' assessment of annual reports
(2015 , Article)In this paper, an attempt is made to investigate a particular group of investors - namely individual investors' perceptions of corporate annual reports in Qatar. A total of 400 surveys were distributed to individual investors ... -
Corporate financial reporting in Qatar: a study of individual investors’ assessment of annual reports
( Inderscience , 2015 , Article)In this paper, an attempt is made to investigate a particular group of investors – namely individual investors’ perceptions of corporate annual reports in Qatar. A total of 400 surveys were distributed to individual investors ... -
Corporate governance and access to interest bearing debt
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2012 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the growing body of literature on the impact of corporate governance on debt contracting by examining if better governance is associated with access to interest bearing debt. ... -
Corporate Governance and Auditor Choice in Kuwait
( Qatar University , 2018 , Article)Although auditor choice has been studied extensively in the audit literature, research examining this issue in developing markets has been scarce thus far. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of ... -
Corporate governance and capital structure: dynamic panel threshold analysis
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This paper examines the nonlinear connection between corporate governance (CG) and corporate leverage. Our study applied the dynamic panel threshold model (DPTM) to facilitate the capture of the nonlinear effect of CG on ... -
Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices—board composition/structure, board compensation, ... -
Corporate governance and family firm performance during the Global Financial Crisis
( Blackwell Publishing , 2020 , Article)We investigate the impact of corporate governance on accounting and market performance relationships of family firms during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We expect the monitoring aspects of corporate governance to ... -
Corporate Governance and Islamic Social Responsibility Disclosure In Kuwaiti Shariah Compliant Financial Institutions
( Qatar University , 2012 , Article)This study examines the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and the extent of Islamic social responsibility disclosure in Kuwait. The annual reports of 40 Shariah-compliant financial institutions ... -
Corporate governance and voluntary risk and forward-looking disclosures
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on risk and forward-looking disclosures in Qatar. Design/methodology/approach: The authors automatically measure levels of risk and ... -
Corporate governance disclosure compliance: a comparison between conventional and Islamic banks
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2020 , Article)The paper examines the extent and trend of corporate governance (CG) disclosure compliance by listed conventional and Islamic banks in Qatar, the UAE and KSA. The study found that conventional banks had more compliance ... -
Corporate Governance Effects On The Extent Of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure In The Gcc Banking Sector
(2018 , Master Thesis)This study seeks to investigate the association between corporate governance mechanisms, and the extent of corporate social responsibility disclosure. The sample includes the banking sector of the GCC countries (Qatar, ... -
Corporate governance voluntary disclosures in developing countries: evidence from Jordanian banks
( Inderscience , 2015 , Article)The main objective of the current study is to determine the corporate governance mechanisms and company’s characteristics that effect on the level of voluntary disclosure provided by Jordanian banking listed companies; it ... -
Corporate governance, bank concentration and economic growth
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)We examine the effects of bank concentration and corporate governance among firms in terms of economic growth using panel data for 34 countries and 29 manufacturing sectors over the period 1980-2010. We show the following ... -
Corporate governance, transparency and performance: empirical evidence from UAE
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2022 , Article)The paper uses both the agency theory and the legitimacy theory to provide a complementary framework that links different patterns of disclosures (i.e., transparency) to corporate performance for a sample of 116 United ... -
Corporate liability for violating international law under The Alien Tort Statute: The corporation through the lens of globalization and privatization
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)The article addresses the question of whether the changing roles of “public actor” states and “private actor” corporations should impact the legal liability of corporations in international law. The classical paradigm ... -
Corporate reporting and disclosures in the emerging capital market of Kuwait: The perceptions of users and preparers
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2018 , Article)The objective of this paper is to investigate the perceptions of users and preparers regarding financial disclosure practices in annual reports of Kuwaiti listed firms. To measure participants' views, a questionnaire survey ...