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| 1 | 2024 Thesis | The influence of board characteristics in integrated reporting disclosure among Public Listed Companies in Malaysia Wong, Kee Hook This study aims to measure the extent of integrated reporting among the top 100 Public
Listed Companies (PLCs) by market capitalization in Malaysia. It also seeks to
examine the influence of the board characteristics (board size, board independence,
board gender diversity, the average age of board members, and board activity level)
on the extent of integrated reporting of the PLCs with the control for the effect of
corporate characteristics (corporate size, financial performance, and leverage). The
sample of this study consists of 99 corporate-year observations from 33 companies of
the top 100 PLCs. Data was collected from integrated reports of the sample companies,
which adopted integrated reporting from 2019 to 2021. The findings reveal that the
average disclosure rate of integrated reports was 71%, with governance having the
highest average disclosure rate of 97%, and risks and opportunities having the lowest
average disclosure rate of 43%. Although board size (_ = 0.645,..... 276 hits |