The goal of this research is to identify determinants of internet Corporate Social Responsibility communication of 41 Belgian companies. Using a content analysis and scoring technique, this paper estimates the degree of website information disclosure of companies' involvement with corporate...

Companies worldwide increasingly engaged in corporate social responsibility disclosure, particularly corporate environmental disclosure (CED) has gained increasing importance since the 1980s. Reporting environmental performance has become a fundamental corporate governance mechanism to improve...

Building on legitimacy theory and prior work on stakeholder management, we study firm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication in social media. In particular, we analyze the content of over a million microblogs on Twitter relating to CSR in the banking industry. We focus on key issues...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained importance over the last years. Yet, only few studies have investigated CSR in German family firms. This study analyzes the CSR communication of 714 listed German family and non-family firms using a content analysis of CSR mission statements. We find...

The latest advances in digital technologies have changed the way companies communicate with their stakeholders. This chapter explores the businesses’ usage of digital communication channels. It focuses on their utilization of social media for marketing and promotion of products, corporate...

This study investigates the social and environmental disclosure practices of socially responsible Chinese listed firms as displayed in their annual reports and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports from the perspective of stakeholders. A stakeholder-driven, three-dimensional social and...

Since the first Earth Day in the 1970s, corporate environmental performance has increased dramatically, and cases of green-washing have increased sharply. The term green-wash refers to a variety of different misleading communications that aim to form overly positive beliefs among stakeholders...

Beyond their legal obligations, corporations globally are considering human rights issues in their management policies and practices for their responsible business conduct regarding social sustainability. This rationale applies to corporate responsibility, in which corporations are active...

This study examines the impact of information environment in capital markets on a firm’s stakeholder paradigm. We integrate research on time horizons with stakeholder theory to unravel both the choice between shareholder diagram and stakeholder diagram, and the choice between generic and...