企业社会责任信息披露问题的探讨

企业社会责任要求企业在追求经济效益的同时也要兼顾社会利益.为了使企业相关利益者了解企业是否履行了社会责任,企业必须披露有关社会责任信息.我国企业社会责任信息披露还处于初级阶段,缺乏企业社会责任信息披露的意识.因此,在进行企业社会责任信息披露时,应披露能源利用、环境保护、职工利益等方面的内容,并在年报附注中披露社会责任信息,编制企业社会责任白皮书等.     

浅谈企业社会责任与信息披露

文章以企业社会责任的履行以及社会责任信息披露报告为研究视角,就企业社会责任信息披露工作现状进行了简要分析,探讨总结社会责任信息披露存在的不足与问题,最后就企业社会责任信息披露中的应对策略进行分析与探讨,望能够引起同行人员的关注与重视.     

企业社会责任信息披露制度的研究

随着全球经济一体化进程的加快,发源于西方的企业社会责任运动在我国悄然兴起.我国目前企业社会责任信息披露理论还不完善.应当强制上市企业披露社会责任报告,鼓励其他企业自愿披露社会责任报告.企业社会责任报告应当全面地反映企业各方面的信息,以利于利益相关者根据报告做出决策.文章最后通过介绍德国企业的做法,给我们以启示.     

媒体关注、政府监管与企业社会责任信息披露

文章从非财务数据角度研究外部压力对企业社会责任信息披露的影响,选取沪市三年238家公司共714个样本进行实证研究.研究结果发现:媒体关注与企业社会责任信息披露正相关;政府监管与企业社会责任信息披露正相关;政府监管度低的企业媒体关注与社会责任信息披露两者之间的关系更显著.文章的研究丰富了外部压力和社会责任信息披露之间关系的理论.     

创业板上市公司社会责任信息披露的实证研究

本文以自愿披露2010年社会责任信息的12家创业板公司为样本,对这些公司的社会责任信息披露程度及其驱动因素进行了实证研究.研究结果表明,我国创业板上市公司社会责任信息披露的总体状况不佳,上市时间、企业规模和安全性与公司社会责任信息的披露水平呈不显著的正相关性;而公司的成长性与盈利性与披露水平呈负相关性,有可能成为阻碍创业板公司社会责任信息披露的负面因素     

企业社会责任信息披露的前置动因研究 ——基于高阶理论视角

为提高我国企业社会责任信息披露质量,本文基于高阶理论探究企业社会责任信息披露的前置动因.并以2011-2013年连续发布社会责任报告的A股上市公司为样本,从高管团队的自然特征、教育特征和社会特征三个方面进行实证研究,研究发现:高管团队的平均年龄、学历水平和社会关联与企业社会责任信息披露显著正相关,而女性比例、工作职称对社会责任信息披露没有显著影响.本文在一定程度上证实了高管特征是企业社会责任信息披露的驱动因素之一.     

海外企业社会责任披露制度及借鉴

与传统信息披露制度要求公司披露财务方面的信息不同，社会责任信息披露要求公司从经济、环境和社会业绩三个方面揭示公司政策和经营活动对社会的影响。联合国以及经合组织在其制定的有关跨国公司的行为准则中均要求企业披露其社会责任方面的信息。美国、欧盟等也有关于企业社会责任信息披露方面的专门立法。我国在企业社会责任信息披露方面尚处于摸索阶段，需借鉴国外的经验以完善我国的企业社会责任信息披露制度。     

我国企业社会责任信息披露问题的探讨

企业披露社会责任信息是企业对所承担的社会责任情况的反映,本文通过对一些上市公司的调查对我国企业的社会责任信息披露现状进行分析,并对企业社会责任信息披露的内容、模式及构建企业社会责任信息披露机制提出了建议。     

企业社会责任信息披露与权益资本成本

运用理论分析和实证检验的方法从权益资本成本的角度研究我国上市公司企业社会责任信息披露的经济动机.研究发现:上市公司上期权益资本成本越高,本期披露社会责任报告的可能性越大,说明降低权益资本成本是上市公司决定是否披露社会责任报告的重要经济动机;对于首次披露企业社会责任报告的公司,上期权益资本成本越高,本期社会责任信息披露质量越高;但对非首次披露企业社会责任报告的公司来说,披露企业社会责任报告的资本成本动机不显著.     

我国企业社会责任会计信息披露研究

企业社会责任信息披露问题是当前国内外会计界研究的热点和难点问题。建立有效的企业社会责任会计信息披露体系,可以更好的督促企业自觉履行应承担的社会责任。企业社会责任要求实现利益相关者利益的最大化,而不仅仅只关注股东的权益。本文从企业利益相关者需求的角度来分析研究我国社会责任信息披露,采用指数评分法分析研究我国社会责任信息披露的现状和存在的问题,并提出构建以需求为导向的社会责任披露模式。     

上市公司社会责任信息披露影响因素研究

本文以在深圳证券交易所上市的公司为样本，对上市公司社会责任信息披露程度及其影响因素进行了实证研究。研究发现，我国上市公司社会责任信息披露的总体状况较差，公司绩效、行业属性及规模是影响我国上市公司社会责任信息披露的重要因素，而独立董事比例及董事长与总经理是否二职合一两个公司治理结构变量均末表现出对社会责任信息披露的显著影响．     

Social and Environmental Disclosure and Corporate Characteristics: A Research Note and Extension

This paper is concerned with the attempts to explain the disclosure of social and environmental information in the annual reports of large companies by reference to observable characteristics of those companies. An extensive literature has sought to establish whether variables such as corporate size, profit and industry segments can explain corporations' disclosure practices. The results from that predominantly North American and Australasian literature are largely inconclusive. This paper provides an extension of that literature by considering a more disaggregated specification of social and environmental disclosure and by employing a detailed time-series data set. By so doing, the paper tests two possible explanations for the inconclusiveness of prior research: namely that any relationships between corporate characteristics and disclosure are dependent upon the type of disclosure and that any such relationships are not stable through time. The results provide support for these explanations as sufficient, if not necessary, conditions for explaining the inconsistency in prior results.     

所有权类型、政治寻租与公司社会责任报告:一个分析性框架

本文综述了西方社会责任报告的理论基础,结合中国转轨经济的制度特征,利用新政治经济学中的寻租理论,构建我国公司社会责任报告的分析性框架。本文认为,我国的公司社会责任报告与信息披露,可以看作是新兴市场中政府的政治干预下企业进行政治寻租的行为,企业的所有权结构对其有影响作用。在此基础上,文章分析了我国现行社会责任报告模式的缺陷,并提出构建以需求为导向的社会责任报告体系。     

企业两类公开信息对消费者购买意向的影响研究

利用情景实验法公布正负两类信息,分析企业公开信息对消费者购买意向的影响。研究发现:两类公开信息变量具有完全中介作用的效果,企业能力对产品评价的影响,高于企业社会责任对产品评价的影响,企业社会责任对企业形象的影响,要高于企业能力对企业形象的影响。     

Determinants of corporate social disclosure: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

We explore the potential firm and industry characteristics that determine the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practises by Bangladeshi listed firms. We use a CSR disclosure checklist to measure the extent of CSR disclosure in the annual reports and a multiple regression analysis to examine the determinants of CSR disclosure. Our study finds that CSR disclosure has positive and significant relationships with export-oriented sector, firm size and types of industries. We also find a negative relationship between CSR disclosure and family ownership. The overall findings of our study provide empirical evidence which suggests that a number of firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of the extent of CSR disclosures in a developing country like Bangladesh. Our findings can help the policy makers to adopt necessary regulatory reform to improve the CSR practises and enhance organisational legitimacy.     

Disclosure responses to mining accidents: South African evidence

Mining activities generate significant social concerns in terms of employee safety and stakeholder scrutiny has increased considerably in recent years. Social and environmental accounting research is largely dedicated to environmental issues and the study of other components of social accounting is limited. This study examines safety disclosures in the annual reports, sustainability reports, and reactive corporate press releases of South African mining organisations following two major mining accidents occurring at Harmony Gold and Gold Fields’ mines. Results show that organisations react to perceived legitimacy threats through increased safety disclosures. The entire mining industry evidences an increase in disclosure levels after the incidents, suggesting that organisations do respond to increased stakeholder scrutiny threatening their legitimacy. Furthermore, our results provide evidence of an association between safety disclosure levels and firm size, social performance, risk, and number of fatalities, while the media attention devoted to mining accidents appears to be unrelated to safety disclosure levels. It is possible that stakeholder pressure, which motivates corporate social disclosures according to legitimacy and stakeholder theories, consists of various factors, which combined form the motivation to report. Media attention, therefore, cannot be considered in isolation as a driver of disclosure. Rather, a combination of variables such as size, social responsibility performance, number of fatalities, risk, and media attention could serve as a proxy for social pressure.     

The association between risk disclosure and firm characteristics: a meta-analysis

The empirical literature on the determinants of risk disclosures offers mixed results. This complicates efforts among stakeholders to understand the factors affecting firms’ decision to report risk information. The aim of our paper is to analyze the findings of 42 empirical studies using a meta-analysis technique. We examine whether differences in the findings are attributable to random error or due to legal and institutional systems, uncertainty avoidance, disclosure regime (mandatory vs. voluntary), industry types, and the proxies used to measure corporate characteristics. We find that all moderators affect the relationship between corporate size and risk reporting. Legal system, disclosure regime, industry types, and leverage ratio measurement moderate the association between leverage ratio and risk disclosure. Industry types and uncertainty-avoidance level affect the relationship between profitability and risk disclosure. Finally, the association between risk factor and risk disclosure is moderated by industry types. We discuss the implications of our findings and offer suggestions for future research.     

The economic rationale for the nature and extent of corporate financial disclosure regulation: A critical assessment

The regulatory framework for corporate financial disclosure has been the subject of a large literature, most of which has focused on the economic rationale for disclosure requirements. This extant economic analysis has not led to any definitive conclusions regarding the necessity for disclosure regulation nor has it provided public policy guidance as to the nature and extent of required corporate financial disclosure. It is evident that broader-based analysis and research incorporating relevant social and political (as well as economic) factors is necessary to gauge appropriate public policy for financial information disclosure.     

Incremental Voluntary Disclosure on Corporate Websites,Determinants and Consequences

This study analyses the determinants and consequences of internet financial reporting (IFR). Our evidence indicates that firms use the internet to report complementary information on firm background, management forecasts, intangible assets and on social and environmental issues. Our results indicate that the decision to provide additional voluntary financial disclosures through corporate websites is mostly influenced by share turnover, the future profitability of the firm and the level of competition in the industry. Last, we find that the extent of voluntary disclosure on corporate websites is related positively to forecast accuracy, and negatively to the dispersion of analysts forecasts, suggesting that such disclosures provide useful information to analysts.     

Determinants of corporate social and environmental reporting in Hong Kong: a research note

The patterns and determinants of corporate social and environmental disclosure (CSED) in Hong Kong (HK) are examined by analysing 154 annual reports of 33 HK listed companies from 1993 to 1997. The research finds that industry difference has an impact on the amount, content theme and location of CSED. There is a positive correlation between company size and the level of CSED. Utility companies disclose more CSED than property and banking firms.