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The textile sector is a significant exporting sector of Pakistan. This study examines the determinants of the export performance of Pakistani textile firms using firm-level panel data from 2008 to 2018. Under the framework of the dynamic System Generalized Method of Moment (SGMM) methodology, our findings suggest that both sunk costs and firm-specific characteristics like productivity, age, and size are important determinants of textile exports. Further, the study also observes that firms with a high number of export destinations and greater product diversification tend to export more. The year-specific dummies reveal that textile export performance is adversely affected by the energy crisis in 2012. We recommend that Pakistan should support large, experienced, and productive textile exporter firms to boost textile exports. Besides, more assistance should be provided regarding potential overseas markets to the existing and new export firms.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been internationally implemented in business activity. It is proven by many international standards, which had been issued and adopted by several companies. Implementation of CSR in Indonesia has been regulated in regulations number 40 year of 2007, however that regulation does not regulate any quantities of CSR that companies must do. This study attempts to investigate effect of company characteristics (company size (SIZE), company age (AGE), and profitability (PRO)), Good Corporate Covernance (GCG) are proxied by board of commissioner quality (BCQ) and audit committee quaality (ACQ) on CSR disclosure (CSRD). The samples are 25 mining companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) period 2011 – 2013 and the company has reported their social responsibility in annual reports. The sample was selected by using of purposive sampling technique. Results indicate that BCQ has significant influence on CSRD. However, SIZE, AGE, PRO and ACQ found to have no effect on CSRD.

This research is aimed a) to identify the level of voluntary disclosure by using Voluntary DisclosureIndex, and b) to analyze the firm’s characteristics that have significant impact on disclosure levelof each firm in certain industry. The Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis areused to examine these objectives, particularly for analyzing firm’s characteristic ( such as board ofdirectors composition, the number of audit committee’s member, firm’s size, leverage, profitability,firm’s operations, and the industry types) and their impact on the voluntary disclosure level. Theresults by using descriptive statistics show that the mining industry have the highest voluntarydisclosure Index (VDI), followed by infra structure and transportation industry, then agricultureindustry. The lowest of Voluntary disclosure index is property and real Estate industry. The resultsalso show that the board of director composition, firm’s size, firm’s operation, and the industrytypes have the significant impact on the level of voluntary disclosure.

The textile sector is a significant exporting sector of Pakistan. This study examines the determinants of the export performance of Pakistani textile firms using firm-level panel data from 2008 to 2018. Under the framework of the dynamic System Generalized Method of Moment (SGMM) methodology, our findings suggest that both sunk costs and firm-specific characteristics like productivity, age, and size are important determinants of textile exports. Further, the study also observes that firms with a high number of export destinations and greater product diversification tend to export more. The year-specific dummies reveal that textile export performance is adversely affected by the energy crisis in 2012. We recommend that Pakistan should support large, experienced, and productive textile exporter firms to boost textile exports. Besides, more assistance should be provided regarding potential overseas markets to the existing and new export firms., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (© 2023 The Author(s).)

This Study tries to provide significant evidences about the effects of the firm characteristics on corporate governance indices exchange .Thus 60 companies were selected during 2004-2008 period. Corporate Governance indices in this research included: 1-Board index, 2- Audit Opinion index. In order to evaluate Board and Audit Opinion indices variables of Adequacy (Sustainability) of Board Members and Independent Audit Opinion were used respectively. Moreover, variables of investment opportunities, growth opportunities, financial risk, firm size, institutional shareholder ratio were used to explain firm characteristics. Implementing a multivariate Logistic regression and linear regression patterns as (combined) panel data, an appropriate pattern for each corporate governance index was provided. Findings corroborate that the effects of investment opportunities, financial risk, growth opportunities and lag adequacy of board members on adequacy of board members(current) as board index are significant and also the effects of financial risk and growth opportunities and lag independent audit opinion on independent audit opinion (current) as audit index are significant.

This study attempts to find a proper answer to the question of why some firms disclose less than other firms do; although, the disclosure information is important for users of information? Alternatively, why different companies, disclose in different levels of information? For this end, using the panel data analysis the impact of firm's characteristics (size, tangibility, leverage, profitability and growth in profitability) are investigated on different disclosure levels for 128 listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2003- 2009 periods. Our findings imply that, the tangibility, leverage, and profitability affect the disclosure level; however, the size and growth opportunity have an insignificant effect on disclosure. This might be due to the difference in nature of the mandatory and voluntary disclosure. All companies regardless to their situation in the market are forced to disclose their information. Therefore, the accomplished analyses through mandatory and voluntary disclosure level have been also analyzed and compared. The results show that firm's characteristics affect the voluntary section of total disclosure only.

This research has determined and evaluated the factors that affect financial reporting quality choice in Iran. The statistical popultion of this research is companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), and the research period is from 1378 to 1385. This research is considered as an empirical accounting research, and causal-comparative and correlation research methods have been used to do it. In this research, correlation test, mean-difference test, and probit regression model have been used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The results of unit-variable tests of hypotheses shows that, financial reporting quality is positively associated with the margin of profitability and managerial efficiency of the firm, and it is negatively associated with product market competition, managerial conservatism, size, capital intensity of business, operating cycle and complexity of the firm's operating environment. However, no association was found between financial reporting quality and growth opportunities, ownership concentration, board of directors structure, board of directors ownership, managerial integrity and financial leverage of the firm. Also, based on multi-variable tests, models were developed to predict the financial reporting quality of firms for the next financial period. These models are based on cumulative distribution function (CDF), and estimate the probability of high quality financial reporting for the next financial period.

The article describes the impact of firms' characteristics on export barriers' perception in the case of Serbian exporters. Topics discussed include the possible correlation of a firm's size, length of export experience and capital ownership to factors that may cause problems for exporting businesses, similarities in export barriers faced by Serbian companies and exporters in other countries, and indications that most export barriers refer to the domestic business environment.

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The role of companies and firms has been understood in terms of a commercial business paradigm of perspective that aims on economic profitability and success. However, in the past few years, as a consequence of rising globalisation and critical ecological issues, the perception of the role of companies in the broader societal context in which it operates, has been altered, by redefining the responsibilities of firms towards society and environment along with financial goals. The study proposed to analyse the impact of Firm characteristics toward Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure. The variables used in this research are size of firm, firm profitability, firm leverage, and sales of the firm. The populations are all firm BSE 30 index in 2007-2012 periods. The analysis methods are using multiple regression analysis. The research found that firm size, firm profitability, firm sales, have an influence toward the Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure, while firm leverage have no influence toward the Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji dampak dari karakteristik perusahaan terhadap tingkat pengungkapan keuangan pada website. Populasi sebanyak 206 perusahaan yang dipilih sebagai sampel dengan menggunakan metode purposive sampling. Hipotesis penelitian ini diuji dengan menggunakan analisis regresi logistik ordinal. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa besar kecilnya adalah signifikan sedangkan profitabilitas, persentase saham yang dimiliki oleh perusahaan publik dan usia secara statistik tidak signifikan pada tingkat pengungkapan keuangan di website. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perusahaan besar dan perusahaan yang sudah beroperasi lama dalam mengoperasikan bisnis lebih cenderung untuk mengungkapkan informasi keuangan pada website. Abstract The objective of this study is to examine effects of firm’s characteristics to the financial disclosure on the website. The population was 206 companies were chosen by purposive sampling. The hypotheses were tested by using ordinal logistic regression analysis. The result of study shows that the variable of firm size is statistically significant. On the contrary, the other variables such as profitability, the percentage of shares held by public and firm age are statistically not significant to the financial disclosures on the website. Finally, the larger companies and the companies that have longer operate the bussiness are more likely to disclose the financial information on the website. Keywords: financial information; website; disclosure; firm’s characteristics