Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosures and Market Value of Listed Firms in Nigeria
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Date
2018
Authors
Okpala, O.P.
Iredele, O.O.
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Nicolaus Copernicun University in Torun
Abstract
This study examines the effect of corporate social environmental disclosure (CSED) on the market value of eighty-four (84) listed firms in Nigeria, which were pur posively selected from the period 2011 to 2016. The aggregate of (CSED) were regres sed on Market Value (Tobin’s Q), while Firm size, financial performance, board size, leverage, affiliation to foreign company and industry type were factored in as extrane ous variables. Data were obtained through content analysis of annual reports of sam pled firms and were analysed through descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
The result of the descriptive analysis showed that the mean score for the CSED is above
average and the standard deviation for almost all the variables is low which indicated
that the deviation of the actual data from their mean is not significant. The OLS result
revealed that CSED, firm size, financial performance, affiliation with foreign company and industry type have significant effect on the market value of firms, while Board size
and leverage do not significantly influence the market value of firms. The study recom mends that firms should disclose information on their environmental performance as
a way of adding value
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Scholarly articles
Keywords
Social and Environmental Disclosures , Market value , Nigeria , Financial performance , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES
Citation
Okpala, O.P., & Iredele, O.O. (2018). Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosures and Market Value of Listed Firms in Nigeria. Copernican Journal of Finance & Accounting, 7(3), 9–28.