The quality of information disclosed in corporate annual reports has received a great deal of attention in the last four decades, mostly in developed countries. The relationship between the extent/quality of disclosure in corporate annual reports and the characteristics of the firm has been extensively examined in the literature. Most of the studies in this […]

Definitions of corporate governance vary widely. They tend to fall into two categories. The first set of definitions concerns itself with a set of behavioral patterns: that is, the actual behavior of corporations, in terms of such measures as performance, efficiency, growth, financial structure, and treatment of shareholders and other stakeholders. The second set concerns […]