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Political connection, ownership concentration, and corporate social responsibility disclosure quality (CSRD): empirical evidence from Jordan

One of the main goals of this study is to investigate whether politically connected firms have a different tendency toward disclosing CSR information compared to those without political connections ... impact of political connections in moderating the relationship between ownership concentration and CSRD. We collect data on CSR activities undertaken by a group of 94 non-financial Jordanian companies

How Infallibilists Can Have It All

agent S has to a fact P that makes P certain for S. I do not take a stand here on precisely what facts we can apprehend. This will largely depend on the outcomes of debates in the philosophy of mind and ... philosophy of mind and perception will differ on what kinds of factors are mentally accessible in this way. In section 1, I developed the concept of apprehension in a way that remains neutral on these debates

Earnings management of acquiring and non-acquiring companies: the key role of ownership structure and national corporate governance in GCC

BenNasr et al. (2015 ) report that companies with state ownership engage in AEM to hide the expropriation of company resources for political aims. The political objective argument has been referred also by ... environment, the level of corruption, political connections, and government effectiveness (Gong and Choi 2021) . Countries with strong investor protection provide an accurate information environment and

Shariah-related disclosure: a literature review and directions for future research

documented 675 verses in 84 chapters of the Qur’an, spanning all 30 parts, that address environmental responsibility. Murphy and Smolarski (2020) analyzed CSR political perspective from the normative Islamic ... point of view. They suggested an Islamic “political” corporate governance framework to a wider stakeholders benefit which will enhance relationship but lessen information asymmetries. Kamla and Haque

Decentralizing corporate governance? A praxeological inquiry

is to build a new theoretical framework for corporate governance. Motivating this effort is, in large part, recent developments in the philosophy of science, specifically regarding social scientific ... boundaries, whether moral, strategic, or political. As part of this function, the oversight subfunction polices and enforces these boundaries. These definitions provide the foundations and clarity necessary

Corporate governance transfers: the case of mergers and acquisitions

rule of law, minority shareholder protection, control of corruption, political stability, government effectiveness, voice, and accountability while firm-level governance identifies a firm’s commitments ... well a nation overcomes corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, the rule of law, political stability, and the citizens’ freedom for electing a government. We calculate the mean index

The Impossibility of Conservatism? Insights from Russian History

in the Tsarist period to show that if they live in times of great hardship, or under arbitrary political rule, political actors and thinkers with conservative sympathies (such as respect for tradition ... developing conservative political philosophy, other parts of history where conservatism?s problems have emerged and have a recognizable connection with the situation today remain of great interest. In

Does corporate sustainability disclosure mitigate earnings management: empirical evidence from Jordan

, which is considered unethical and irresponsible (Kaplan, 2001) . Therefore, based on ethical, political and integrative perspectives as well as with previous findings (Hong and Andersen, 2011; Choi and

Who monitors the monitors? An examination of listed companies in an emerging market context

board committee level in such a cross-country study. Future scholars can also account for instances where an entire board has been replaced. Whilst this study adopted a positivistic philosophy ... Science 64 ( 7 ): 3400 - 3420 . Fama , E.F. 1980 . Agency problems and the theory of the firm . Journal of Political Economy 88 ( 2 ): 288 - 307 . Fama , E.F. , and M.C. Jensen . 1983 . Separation of

The impact of corporate governance on financial performance: a cross-sector study

institutional theory. The latter theory emphasizes that an institution is constrained by its social, political, economic, legal and technological environment, which it conforms to in order to guarantee its ... : no first-order autocorrelation F(1, 159)    17.261 Prob > F    0.0001 performance of firms, which is explained by an unfavorable effect of the growth of the political visibility of firms in the UK. In

Improving the global comparability of IFRS-based financial reporting through global enforcement: a proposed organizational dynamic

-political and cultural environment) differently between countries. We provide a review of the literature that accordingly substantiates differences in application of IFRS between countries. Some managers are ... similar wordings in national laws, can be explained by taking recourse to the philosophy of language (Alexander et al. 2018) . Complex language commingles two latent components of linguistics: the

Introduction

that there is an uninterrupted tradition from the age of humanism and the Renaissance to today. Focusing on political philosophy has led Karen Green to trace women’s argu ments for their status as the ... topic which is, of course, of considerable contemporary interest. Three papers extend our knowledge of the moral and political philosophy developed by women. Jacqueline Broad offers the first extended

(White) Tyranny and the Democratic Value of Distrust

of Distrust,” The Journal of Philosophy 99.10 ( 2002 ), 532–48; Katherine Hawley, “Trust, Distrust, and Commitment,” Nous 48.1 ( 2014 ), 1–20. 3. I have argued that political solidarity is of value ... University Press, 1999 ); Patti T. Lenard, “ The Decline of Trust, The Decline of Democracy?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 .3 ( 2005 ), 363 - 78 ; Shayla Nunnaly , Trust

Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Semblance

components of a just social order.12 It is no surprise, then, that the work’s penultimate letter finds Schiller attempting to vindicate artistic imitation against the charge of perfidy and political subversion ... ). Abbreviations used in citing Nietzsche's works BGE   Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future BT   The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music CW   The Case of Wagner: A Busker’s Problem

Revenue recognition and channel stuffing in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry

and Stadler (2020) suggest that IFRS 15 has changed the philosophy of recognition, not only to provide a fairer representation of corporate revenues but also to inhibit the use of revenues for earnings

Rights, Goods, and Proportionate War

Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012 ), 136f . 14. “Proportionality in the Morality of War,” 40 . 15. Ibid . 16. Ibid . 17. “Proportionality and Necessity,” in War: Essays in Political Philosophy, ed ... Thomas Hurka, “Proportionality in the Morality of War,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33 (1), (2005), 34–66, at 37–38. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/monist/article-abstract/99/1/70/2563350 by

Vice Epistemology

factors than by reference to character traits as we ordinarily think of them. 8 If character traits are explanatorily redundant that would be a good reason for not positing them. In philosophy, situationism ... Heren because of, rather than despite, the prejudice to which his dictum gives expression. Prejudice abets rather than impedes political inquiry by insulating us against rampant insincerity in the

Prudential supervisory disclosure (PSD) with supervisory technology (SupTech): lessons from a FinTech crisis

market crash On May 6, 2010, the negative sentiment, unsettling political and economic news from overseas concerning the European debt crisis, led to growing uncertainty in the financial markets (CFTC ... market reform requires political leadership and strong financial support, which have been not entirely in the hands of the agencies. The same bottleneck holds for almost all financial regulators and

Do women on boards enhance firm performance? Evidence from top Indian companies

directors (like education, experience, political connection, expertise, age and social interlocking) are extremely important to understand the role of WDs on corporate boards. However, this study does not