The publisher of Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting is issuing an Expression of Concern for the following article Khanchel, I., Lassoued, N. and Mekni, E. (2025), “Digital transformation and ESG performance in MENA banks: the moderating role of returnee CEOs”. Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. Link to the cited article. It has come to our attention that the following anomalous references were included in the manuscript:The authors were unable to provide sufficient justification for their presence in the article and acknowledge that the references were erroneously added after using generative AI to copy-edit their manuscript. It should be noted that the references are present in the reference list but not cited in the body of the manuscript. The conclusions of the article are not affected by this error. The authors would like to note that they agree with the content of this notice. The publisher sincerely apologizes to the reader.
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