The Impact of Corporate Governance, Information Asymmetry and Sustainability Reporting: A Systematic Exploration

Abstract

Sustainability reporting, integrated reporting and ESG reporting are the newest developments of reporting, suggesting by the many standard setters to overcome the problem by limiting non-financial information being disclosed by the organisation. The boards of directors determine the level, quality and magnitude of disclosure. The board's variation in knowledge, gender, capability, duality and competency will have different impacts on that decision. Whether the board of directors possessed proper enough knowledge to make decisions is questionable. It is because the managers might need to give more information to managers to make a decision, or even the director might not be asked important elements to the manager. This reciprocal effect impacts the level of disclosure. Due to that, the objective of this paper is to explore the potential of information asymmetry in the direction of corporate finance and sustainability reporting. This study uses advanced searching that systematically analyses. After the expert discussion, the findings can be divided into three themes: corporate governance, sustainability reporting and ESG reporting; corporate governance, information asymmetry, and information asymmetry.