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Corporate Governance Mechanisms and the Practice of Sustainability Activities in Nigeria

Abdulrahaman Bala Sani, Nasiru Abdulsalam-Ka’oje, Mohammed Auwal Babangida

Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · pp. 1–12 · Published 5 Jan 2022

10.9734/arjass/2022/v16i130274

Abstract

The paper examined the determinants of sustainability practice (SP) in Nigerian. Two main dimensions of the factors influencing sustainability practice were investigated. First, company characteristics, proxied by firm size (FSIZE), dividend per share (DIPS), Tobin’s-Q (TOBQ), type of industry (IDTY), and profit after tax margin (NPTM). Secondly, the board characteristics, proxied by disclosure of board roles and function (DBRF), chairman roles in the board (DCRB), board members appointment date (BADT), shareholders engagement policy (DISS), and board meetings with attendance records (DMBM). The content analysis approach was introduced to extracted relevant data from 270 annual reports of the sample companies between 2011 and 2020. The Global Initiative Reports GRI (G4) index was used to examine these annual reports. The panel regression result exerts that all of the elements of board characteristics are important determinants of SRP in Nigeria. This suggests that factors related to the identity of companies might influence the disclosure for SRP, particularly when the disclosure is voluntary. Whereas, the proxies of the company characteristics except for DIPS, TOBQ, and IDTY are not important factors, which might be linked with the voluntary nature of sustainability practice in Nigeria. The results further reveal a low level of disclosure. The low rating and disclosure indicated that listed Nigerian firms are still behind when it comes to disclosing and reporting sustainability activities in line with the GRI-G4 guidelines. Therefore, the study is empirically and theoretically relevant, as it might be in need of investigating the commitments and contributions of Nigerian companies and institutions towards a sustainable world by 2030.

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