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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Sicco Santema, Marijke Hoekert, Jeroen van de Rijt and Aswin van Oijen

This article aims to focus on strategy disclosure in annual reports across Europe and to try to establish whether national culture and national corporate governance features have…

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Abstract

Purpose

This article aims to focus on strategy disclosure in annual reports across Europe and to try to establish whether national culture and national corporate governance features have an influence on the extent to which companies disclose their strategy. The research was conducted to fulfil three main purposes: to build a model for measuring strategy disclosure; to find reasons for differences in strategy disclosure across countries; and to test whether there are indeed differences in the extent to which strategy is disclosed.

Design/methodology/approach

The extent to which companies disclose their strategy is predicted on the basis of comparative management and corporate governance literature. This prediction is subsequently tested on ten criteria (describing corporate strategy). The empirical results were statistically analysed by using Manova and linear regression.

Findings

The main conclusion is drawn that national differences in corporate governance and culture do influence the extent to which companies disclose their corporate strategy.

Research limitations/implications

The research sample consists of the annual reports of five European countries. Future research could be extended into a broader sample. Furthermore, possible influence of other elements on the extent to which companies disclose their strategy (besides the control variables already taken into account) could be considered.

Practical implications

Practical implications for managers from this conclusion are that, in order to keep the stakeholders satisfied, the company should look at their demands for disclosure when deciding on a strategy for disclosure.

Originality/value

The link between national differences and strategy disclosure has not been specified so clearly in the literature before, and therefore can be seen as the largest contribution of this study.

Details

European Business Review, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-534X

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