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Financial Management: Recent submissions
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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : Risk information provides information to enable stakeholders to make informed decisions about a company. Corporate communications should be readable and unbiased so as not to hamper disclosure usefulness. This ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-05)We investigate stock market uncertainty spillovers to commodity markets using wavelet coherence and a general stock market-related Google search trends (GST)-based index to proxy for uncertainty. GST reflect stock market ...
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(Wiley, 2024-03)We build on and extend the literature on corporate governance and sustainability by examining whether indigenous directors (IDs, hereinafter) shape corporate environmental performance (CEP, hereinafter). Drawing insights ...
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(Wiley, 2024-03)Considering debates surrounding the usefulness of integrated reporting for decision-making, this exploratory study uses objective measures to investigate the quality of disclosures other than financial in the basic materials ...
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(Medknow Publications, 2023-09)Despite the increasing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, it is not fully understood whether companies consider these factors when designing compensation plans for their directors. This ...
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(EnPress, 2023)China-Africa economic integration generally looks lucid, as evidenced by rising bilateral trade, as well as Chinese FDI, aid, and debt financing for infrastructure development in Africa. The engagement, however, appears ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-01)BACKGROUND : Corporate risk management theory argues that effective hedging with derivatives should reduce earnings volatility and enhance firm value. However, studies that have examined the relationship between the use ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-12)China is now Africa's largest trading partner, having surpassed the United States (US) in 2008. This is a vital development because trade facilitates capital injection as well as knowledge and technology spillovers in ...
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(Inderscience, 2023-08)We explore narrative styles of 50 standalone sustainability reports for the years 2016 to 2019 published by South African mining companies. Our analyses using computer-aided narrative analysis tools reveal that readability ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-01)Keyword-based measures purporting to reflect investor sentiment, attention or uncertainty have increasingly been used to model stock market behaviour. We investigate and shed light on the narrative reflected by Google ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023-06)This study empirically addresses claims about the effects of strikes on output growth, inflation, and non-agricultural employment in South Africa using a structural analysis of Bayesian VAR models with a Normal inverted ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2023)The physical and societal characteristics of home have been established as important in influencing the health and wellbeing of older adults, yet these have rarely been explored together. There is also limited research ...
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(Unisa Press, 2022-06)BACKGROUND : Executive compensation has become a controversial topic globally. Recent and past incidents of labour unrest, including those that plagued the South African mining sector in 2012, highlighted the level of ...
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(Emerald, 2024-01)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to determine if there is a link between corporate shareholder value creation and economic growth. The first objective of this paper is to determine which specific shareholder value ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-09)Genre theory allows us to examine texts that are written for a specific purpose. A non-fictional genre is similar to other genres such as those for films and novels, and genre theory: (i) categorises the elements of the ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-11-14)ORIENTATION : Rising levels of executive compensation amidst the widening inequality, unemployment, poverty and other socio-economic challenges have raised questions among policymakers, academics and practitioners alike ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)A reverse event study approach is used to investigate how the South African sovereign bond yield curve react to headline news. Abnormal return dates in the zero-coupon yields are identified using GARCH models on the daily ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-08-23)BACKGROUND : South Africa is currently the only country in the world where its largest stock exchange has adopted integrated reporting on an 'apply and explain' basis, through the implementation of the King Code for Corporate ...
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(Emerald, 2023)PURPOSE : The emerging business partner role of management accountants (MAs) results in an increased requirement of MAs to make business decisions. Frame dependence cognitive biases regularly influence decisions made in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-10)The optimality of active or passively managed investment fund alternatives is a contentious topic in the field of investment management. The efficient market hypothesis states that active funds should not be able to ...
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