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Demand for sustainability reporting in Malaysia is increasing as a result of lack ofsustainability practices, especially among companies in the category of environmental-sensitive industry. Sustainability is an approach that helps to integrate the businessperformance in all three dimensions of sustainability which are economic, environmentaland social. It requires sound management that links the environment and socialinformation with financial information under one repo...

The distressed company refers to a company that is facing financial difficulty.Various factors can contribute to a distressed company. Some of the factors are weakcorporate governance system due to board composition, which is a lack in a combinationof executive, non-executive, independent, non-independent, male and female directors,and wrong board size and audit committee. Besides, the company characteristics suchas the size of the company, type of industry and company ...

The capital structure has a huge effect on the firm's results. Any erroneousdecisions to improve the financial structure could cause financial distress to the followingfirms and may even lead to bankruptcy. Furthermore, the firm capital structure couldbackfire and steer any firm to bankruptcy, causing the firm to have a negative effect onfirm performance if it is not utilized properly. The problem with the study lies in theabsence of clarity concerning the effect of cap...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a hot topic for discussion in therecent corporate literature. There are lot of studies have been carried out in order toidentify the main element that influences the CSR disclosure among organizationswhich would help to improve the overall business performance. In this research study,the main purpose is to determine the level of CSR disclosure in Malaysian PublicListed Companies (PLCs) particularly in manufacturing indust...

This research mainly concentrated on the intention of company secretaries towhistleblow in the private companies which mainly situated in Klang Valley (KualaLumpur and Selangor). Basically, the aim of this study is to focus on factorsinfluencing company secretary’s whistleblowing intention which would represent theprobability of whistleblowing behaviour. The theory of planned behaviour with thecomponents of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control wil...