...Amina Buallay; Ammar Abdulla Al Hawaj; Allam Hamdan Purpose In the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, the integrated reporting (IR) concept has attracted considerable attention from banks. In as much as IR is not a legal requirement anywhere in the GCC, however, the incidence of disclosure...

... recommends that regulators of Islamic banks in the GCC need to develop a set of strict restrictions for the selection of independent members of the board and to minimize the meetings of the board to reduce the cost of preparing information and the information asymmetry, thus improving performance...

... of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for insurance and takaful providers for their marketing strategy purpose. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses insurance and takaful sectors in Gulf region as an exploring area where the data are extracted from the regulators’ annual reports and other...