Abstract
This article examines the social and environmental disclosures of 37 construction companies listed on Malaysian Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2002. The main objective is to investigate the extent to which Malaysian
construction companies disclose social and environmental information and to find out whether the amount of disclosure have relationship with the company's characteristics; size, profitability, leverage, and audit firm. The result provides strong evidence that total CSD is positively related to companies' size and profitability. This implies that larger and more profitable corporations disclose more social and environmental information signaling
that they are responsible corporate citizens. Trend analysis of data further confirms that construction companies especially company majority owned by 'corporate owner' in Malaysia are aware of their social responsibility but still at low level. However, the result of the current study rejects the assumption that total CSD is related to audit firm. The test also reveals that there exists no
strong evidence to support the relationship between total CSD and leverage.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Mohamed Zain, Mustaffa UNSPECIFIED Janggu, Tamoi UNSPECIFIED |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Construction industry > Malaysia |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Accounting Research Institute (ARI) |
Journal or Publication Title: | Malaysian Accounting Review |
UiTM Journal Collections: | UiTM Journal > Management & Accounting Review (MAR) |
ISSN: | 1675-4077 |
Volume: | 5 |
Number: | 1 |
Page Range: | pp. 85-114 |
Keywords: | Corporate social disclosure, voluntary disclosure, environmental reporting |
Date: | 2006 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13791 |
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