Corporate Boards and Ownership Structure as Antecedents of Corporate Governance Disclosure in Saudi Arabian Publicly Listed Corporations
By Waleed M. Al-Bassam, Collins G. Ntim, Kwaku Opong, Yvonne Downs. 2018
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This study investigates whether and to what extent publicly listed corporations voluntarily comply with and disclose recommended good corporate governance (CG) practices, and distinctively examines whether the observed cross-sectional differences in such CG disclosures can be explained by ownership and board mechanisms with specific focus on Saudi Arabia. The study’s results suggest that corporations with larger boards, a Big 4 auditor, higher government ownership, a CG committee, and higher institutional ownership disclose considerably more than those that are not. By contrast, the study finds that an increase in block ownership significantly reduces CG disclosure. The study’s results are generally robust to a number of econometric models that control for different types of disclosure indices, firm-specific characteristics, and firm-level fixed effects. The study’s results have important implications for policy makers, practitioners, and regulatory authorities, especially those in developing countries across the globe.
Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management
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- Islamic Governance, National Governance, and Bank Risk Management and Disclosure in MENA Countries (2017, background): “improve economic efficiency by offering Islamic banks’ access to critical resources, such as Islamic bonds (‘Sukuk’) and contracts (Al-Bassam et al., 2017; Pfeffer & Salancik, 2003).”