Larelle Chapple

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how both the level and the nature of environmental information voluntarily disclosed by Australian firms relate to their underlying environmental performance and found that firms with a higher pollution propensity disclose more environmental information; they also rely on disclosures that the GRI views as inherently more objective and verifiable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether having multiple women on the board is linked to performance, and if there is a within-industry effect, and they find some weak evidence of a negative correlation between diversity and performance but that in some industries diversity is positively correlated with performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of a national emissions trading scheme (ETS) on the market valuation of Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) firms and found that the market assesses the most carbon intensive sample firms a market value decrement relative to other sample firms of between 7% and 10% of market capitalization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether having multiple women on the board is linked to performance, and if there is a within-industry effect, and they do not find evidence of an association between diversity and performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the institutional investor in monitoring risk and firm performance has been investigated and a positive association between firm-specific risk, risk management policy, and performance for firms with increasing institutional shareholdings was found.