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Corporate environmental reporting practices and performance of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria
Get PDFPurpose – This study aims to provide empirical insights into the impact of corporate environmental reporting practices on the performance of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria.
Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts an ex-post facto research design and focuses on a population of seventy-six (76) quoted manufacturing firms, from which a sample of sixty-four (64) companies was selected. Data from fifty-two (52) companies with complete datasets were used to ensure a balanced panel model. Panel Corrected Standard Error Model (PCSE) Regression techniques were applied to analyze data obtained from the annual reports and financial statements of the selected companies over a seven-year period (2016–2022).
Findings – The results indicate that environmental policy disclosure, environmental cost disclosure, and environmental performance disclosure significantly influence the performance of the sampled companies at a 5% level of significance. The findings suggest that effective management and reporting of environmental information can positively impact company performance. Among the disclosure types, environmental performance disclosure has the most substantial effect on company performance.
Research limitations/implications – Corporate environmental disclosure is a crucial predictor of company performance. Regulatory bodies should encourage the integration of environmental reporting in annual reports, ensuring compliance with both mandatory and voluntary requirements. Future research could extend these findings by examining other sectors or geographies to generalize the relationship between environmental disclosures and performance.
Originality/value – This study provides a comprehensive examination of the impact of different types of environmental disclosures on corporate performance. By applying PCSE regression, the study offers a robust analysis of the relationships between environmental disclosure practices and performance outcomes in a developing country context, thereby contributing valuable insights to the existing literature on corporate environmental reporting
Functional Labour Markets Revealed by Travel to Work Data 1991 and 2001
Get PDFRegional labour market analysis is ideally based on functional rather than administrative areas. Travel-to-work data obtained from the 1991 and 2001 Census are used to define a set of functional labour markets for New Zealand. Considerable stability is found in the boundaries of the identified labour markets 1991 and 2001 although with a reduction in the number of areas from 140 to 106. The overall stability in the identified areas suggests that they provide a robust basis for regional analysis. The reduction in the number of areas is explained in part by data deficiencies associated with the 2001 Census and in some instances by changes in commuting patterns
Opening up the narrow: Possibilities for professional learning and development in Aotearoa
Get PDFIt is vital to engage with professional learning and development (PLD) to be a teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the way it has been enacted due to education policy, PLD has essentially become synonymous with teacher inquiry: to engage with PLD is to follow an inquiry cycle. Literature into what constitutes effective teacher PLD similarly endorses an inquiry approach. But teacher inquiry as interpreted by Ministry of Education neoliberal-influenced policy and procedures risks becoming a linear process abstracted away from the context and complexity of schools and teaching. Neoliberal influences on education policy have similarly supported input-output assumptions of PLD and have led to a narrowing effect. However, it is possible to open PLD up to be creative and subversive. If policy and procedure were to be decoupled, introducing greater flexibility, and refocused on the principles that underpin effective teacher PLD, then this creativity and transformation could be realised
Translating Indigenous literature from Aotearoa into Italian: Patricia Grace’s Pōtiki and Hone Tuwhare’s Small Holes in the Silence.
Get PDFIn this article, I aim to give some insight about translating into Italian two original bilingual works of literature from Aotearoa New Zealand, with te reo Māori as a crucial and enriching part of NZ English. I will focus on the iconic novel Pōtiki (1986) by Patricia Grace and on Hone Tuwhare’s celebrated poetry from Small Holes in the Silence (2016). In translating NZ literature, I have always been fascinated by new English words, puns and metaphors often entangled with Māori phrases, which clearly have no correspondence in the Italian language. As a translator, my intention is to echo the colours of words from the unique voices of Kiwi authors – the colours of words being conveyed through lexicon, syntax and rhythm. I believe that translating literature is a form of art: the constant choice of vocabulary and style means creative interpretation. On the other hand, in giving foreign readers access to original texts, the “invisibility of translation” ought to be retained1 . Invisibility is a kind of paradox: it depends on the translator’s skills to maintain this mediation imperceivable within that creative relationship. A good translation expresses the unique and diverse voice of the author, and surely, one of the most challenging tasks in literary translation is keeping faith to the original cultural context and registers through usage of contemporary, updated language. One example: Patricia Grace often used the word “race” in Pōtiki which was considered acceptable back in the 1980s but it was not longer recommended for use in 2017, when I translated the book; thus, I translated “one of our race” as “one of us” (“uno di noi”). Having Patricia Grace’s support and guidance throughout the translation of her work has been priceless and made me feel so honored. Also, I am thankful to Rob Tuwhare, for his kind assistance and enthusiasm during the translation of his father’s poems into Piccoli Buchi nel Silenzio (2018). I think it is dutiful, as a translator, to give a contribution to the diffusion of a wonderful, ancestral culture which is being continued, amplified and re-created in a written form by generations of authors – whose Resistance is inspiring. Finally, I will comment on the importance of translating Indigenous literature from Aotearoa into Italian, given the historical and cultural connections between those two countries and their people
Wage Policy and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand: Young adults' perspectives
Get PDFWe analysed the responses of 995 Year 13 students from across Aotearoa New Zealand regarding the payment of minimum and living wages. In analysing their Likert scale ratings and written responses, we found the majority of these young adults to be clearly in favour of the living wage being adopted universally. Their justifications for this stance centred around themes of survival, justice, wellbeing, economic balance and reciprocity. We assert that the voices of rangatahi have been missing in the consecutive government reviews of the minimum wage, and that listening to these voices will enhance policymaking in this area
Regulating the Digital Environment to Protect Users from Harmful Commodity Marketing
Get PDFAlthough the creators of the world wide web never intended it to be regulated by state intervention, the rapid evolution of the online environment has necessitated regulation of certain aspects of the digital ecosystem. Harmful commodity marketing (e.g., alcohol, vaping and unhealthy food and beverage product marketing) on social media and in digital spaces has been linked to adverse health outcomes and there have been calls for its regulation. In this commentary we explain why this is important and consider how such regulation could be achieved
Revitalising New Zealand’s Democracy From the Bottom Up: Local government’s contribution
Get PDFEstablished democracies across the world, with few exceptions, are grappling with the issues of growing distrust in public institutions and declining democratic participation. Governments have responded in multiple ways: by, for example, implementing strategies to address regional social and economic disadvantage, such as the United Kingdom’s levelling up programme, and reforming electoral systems to address perceived unfairness, such as limits on political donations. There has, however, been little attention given to the role that local government plays, or could play, in a strong and resilient democracy. Councils play at least three major roles: namely, promoting active citizenship, building social cohesion, and strengthening community voice and choice. This article examines the first of those roles, promoting active citizenship, and sets out the reasons why it needs to be a priority for New Zealand councils
Devolution of New Zealand Research to a Gig Economy: Time for investment in university research
No full textIn 2005 the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission’s (TEC) put out a call for academic feedback on their Strategic Review of the Tertiary Education Workforce. Authors on this review provided a comprehensive review of the increasing reliance of tertiary institutes, particularly universities, on fixed-term contract staff, and the inherent risks for New Zealand science of relying on staff with unstable career structures and funding support. We explored some of the causes behind the transformation of the workforce from permanent to fixed-term, and recommended a suite of potential pathways to help address the challenges. This current review reports that nearly 20 years on very little has changed, and indeed the situation has gotten worse, with more researchers than ever before now on fixed-term contracts, even at senior levels. We have failed to establish and fund a career fellowship system. There has been a lack of substantive increases in funding for grants like Marsden and HRC that can sustain employment of research staff, and grant funding has not kept up with inflation. The net result is that we have essentially created a gig economy for research staff, with reliance on repeated contracts over many years, with few if any opportunities to transition to permanent positions. Researchers must write more and more grants to sustain their salaries as grants are insufficiently funded due to lack of investment leaving staff with either reducing the contract time or without a full salary for the full duration. Low funding rates due to lack of investment make it increasingly difficult to get funding to pay their salaries. Researchers see a bleak future, and the brain drain has begun. Students do not see a career in research as attractive and thus our capacity to develop the next generation of Kiwi scientists is at risk. This crisis threatens our ability to undertake and deliver science, technology and innovation that is essential for the growth of our economy. Urgent action is needed to address this fundamentally flawed approach to how we fund university based research and how we fail to support sustainable research careers
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