Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/310587 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems (JAMIS) [ISSN:] 2559-6004 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 193-216
Publisher: 
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Abstract: 
This paper is aimed to explore and compare disclosure on corporate governance mechanisms in the annual reports of commercial banks for two emerging countries: Romania and Malaysia. There were selected 34 banks situated in Romania and Malaysia, in order to highlight the influence of culture and the impact of the size, profitability on corporate governance disclosure practices. Another objective is to determine the quality of the web sites of these banks and their ability to support the access to corporate governance elements. It is found that Malaysian banks provide more corporate governance information than Romanian banks, the quality of web sites being higher in case of Romanian banks. The conducted study highlights the tendency of more profitable banks to disclose more information on corporate governance than less profitable financial institutions, while the size of the banks does not appear to influence the value of the corporate governance disclosure index.
Subjects: 
corporate governance
banks
web sites
disclosure
Romania
Malaysia
JEL: 
G3
G21
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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