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Influence of level of assurance, assurance provider type, and investors’ personality in greenhouse gases reporting for social responsible investment

Hawariah Dal Nial (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Zarina Zakaria (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Anna Che Azmi (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

ISSN: 1832-5912

Article publication date: 18 June 2024

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Abstract

Purpose

The study aims to evaluate how different types of assurors and investors’ Big Five personality traits affect the relationship between levels of assurance for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting and individual investors' decision-making in social responsible investment (SRI).

Design/methodology/approach

This study adopted an experimental approach with 315 individual investors as participants.

Findings

The results show that there are some differences in the individual investors’ decision-making. Accountants are the preferred assuror. Type of assuror and level of assurance for GHG reporting affect investors’ decision-making, in the presence of different levels of investors’ personality traits, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism. However, individual investors with different levels of agreeableness do not have similar influence.

Originality/value

This study extends the literature on individual investors’ decision-making in socially responsible investment by examining the combination of the type of assuror, level of assurance and investors’ personality traits. This study also observes three different assurors, accountants, engineers and specialists and four different assurance levels – reasonable, hybrid, limited and not specified.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions, which helped them to significantly improve the quality of this paper.

Citation

Dal Nial, H., Zakaria, Z. and Che Azmi, A. (2024), "Influence of level of assurance, assurance provider type, and investors’ personality in greenhouse gases reporting for social responsible investment", Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAOC-07-2023-0118

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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