Self-disclosure, the act of revealing oneself to others, is an important social behavior that contributes positively to intimacy and social support from others. It is a natural behavior, and social scientists have carried out numerous quantitative analyses of it through manual tagging and survey questionnaires. Recently, the flood of data from online social networks (OSN) offers a practical way...

We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on corporate disclosure practices. Specifically, we examine regulations mandating the disclosure of environmental, social, and governance information in China, Denmark, Malaysia, and South Africa using differences-in-differences estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find significant heterogeneity in corporate disclosure ...

This study, using longitudinal data analysis, attempts to address the question of whether CSR is linked to financial performance for PLCs in Malaysia. Despite CSR disclosure being at a nascent stage in Malaysia, the findings of this study solidly support the outcome of the majority of results in developed markets. It was found to be positively related to financial performance. This suggests tha...

*Associate Commissioner for Policy, Social Security Administration. The author wishes to acknowledge the research assistance of Andrew M. Garreis, Privacy Branch, Division of Technical Documents and Privacy, Office of Regulations, Office of Policy, Social Security Administration. agency-initiated pledge of confidentiality, through the formative years 1940-60, and into the period of rapid policy...

This paper focuses on the roles of personality and social support in affecting the extent of emotional disclosure in social media (SM) and compares them to those in face-to-face encounters. Specifically, we consider the effects of the Big Five personality traits and perceptions of social support from friends, significant others, and family on the extent of sharing positive and negative emotions...

a r t i c l e i n f o In this article, the author examines voluntary self-disclosure phenomenon among social networking sites. Self-disclosure enables member interactions, service customizations, targeted marketing, and digital content generation; hence the level of self-disclosure is imperative to the success of social networking sites. Yet, members are often reluctant to reveal themselves des...

Through a series of interpretative textual analysis on the sustainability related nonfinancial disclosures of two large agribusinesses in the People’s Republic of China, this paper intends to reveal how these reports are used to respond to institutional and social pressures, and how the firms are engaged in the struggle to shape the social reality in a way that serves their own interests. The f...

Background: Accurate and timely disclosure of information is one of the most important tools for company managers to reduce the cost of capital. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of managerschr('39') ownership in the relationship between the disclosure of corporate social and moral responsibility and the cost of equity in companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange. Method...

This paper examines, for a two-period signalling game played by a revenue-raising government and a monopolistic firm in an asymmetric information context, how the government behaves when it taxes the firm’s production. Information regarding the firm’s efficiency (or its potential to pay taxes) is private; therefore, only the firm knows its ‘type’. To prevent opportunism and lead the firm to dis...