Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both an outcome of, and part of reputation risk management processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws heavily on management research. In addition,...

Purpose - To explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both as an outcome of and part of reputation risk management processes (we phrase this as being the reputation risk management thesis). Design/methodology/approach - The paper outlines how...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both an outcome of, and part of reputation risk management processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws heavily on management research. In addition,...