2019
DOI: 10.1108/srj-01-2017-0001
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Revisiting the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social and environmental disclosure practices in Pakistan

Abstract: Purpose This study aims to revisit the corporate social and environmental disclosure (CSED) practices of Pakistani companies using unique CSED index which measures the CSED through three dimensions such as theme, news type and nature of information. In addition, the effect of board composition, ownership structure and corporate characteristics on CSED was tested through performing multiple regression analysis. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, data were collected from annual reports of top 120 co… Show more

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“…The greater the number of audit committees in a company, the wider the company's environmental disclosure will be. In line with research conducted by Sari et al (2018); Ashfaq & Rui (2019) and Dewi (2019) which state that the size of the audit committee has a positive and significant effect on environmental disclosure. Still, it is different from the research results of Wardani & Haryani (2018); and Kurniawan (2019) which state that there is no effect between the two.…”
Section: The Effect Of Audit Committee Size On Environmental Disclosuresupporting
confidence: 87%
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“…The greater the number of audit committees in a company, the wider the company's environmental disclosure will be. In line with research conducted by Sari et al (2018); Ashfaq & Rui (2019) and Dewi (2019) which state that the size of the audit committee has a positive and significant effect on environmental disclosure. Still, it is different from the research results of Wardani & Haryani (2018); and Kurniawan (2019) which state that there is no effect between the two.…”
Section: The Effect Of Audit Committee Size On Environmental Disclosuresupporting
confidence: 87%
“…In line with research conducted by (Sari et. al, 2018); (Dewi, 2019); Muttakin (2015) and Ashfaq & Rui (2019) that there is a positive and significant relationship between the size of board of commissioners and environmental disclosure.…”
Section: H1mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Therefore, large companies will prevent the emergence of negative opinions that threaten the continuity of the company with more environmental disclosure. Diantimala & Amril (2018), Ashfaq & Rui (2018), and Ismail et al 2018found firm size obtains significant positive result with environmental disclosure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Diantimala & Amril (2018), Ashfaq & Rui (2018), Ismail et al, (2018) produced finding that firm size has a significant positive effect on corporate environmental disclosure. Other studies conducted by Darus et al(2014), Ariningtika & Kiswara (2013) and Anggrarini & Taufiq (2017) find that firm size does not affect environmental disclosure significantly.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Numerous studies investigated CSR reporting and its interrelation with corporate governance (Li & Zhang, 2010;Choi et al, 2013;Ashfaq & Rui, 2019) suggesting that there is a positive relationship between board of directors (Fuente et al, 2017), presence of audit committee (Fallah & Mojarrad, 2019), CEO duality (Khan et al, 2012) board gender representation (Barako & Brown, 2008), company size (Dias & Craig, 2017) and ownership type (Akin & Yilmaz, 2016) and concentration (Majumderet al, 2019).…”
Section: Introduction and Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%