Building a Trustworthy Corporate Identity: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Stance in Annual and Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

Lexical Features in Corporate Annual Reports: a Corpus-based Study

nnual reports (ARs) are the most important external documents and the most used channels for communication between organizations and stakeholders. The study uses self-built one self-built large corpus and nine small self-built sub-corpora to investigate lexical features in ARs to help AR users understand written financial discourses. The corpus consists of 120 pieces of 2011 annual reports. The...

Understanding the “Corporate” in Corporate Social Responsibility

As progressives confront the problems of the twenty-first century, be they global poverty and increasing income inequality, the scourge of HIV and other diseases, educational disparities, or climate change, an increasingly popular strategy is to enlist corporations in the effort. Even as some progressives continue to launch attacks on corporate misbehavior, often excoriating corporations for ca...

Idiosyncratic Risk and Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility: Emphasizing the Role of Corporate Governance

In this study, the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR ) disclosure on idiosyncratic risk has been investigated concerning three stakeholder theory, information asymmetry, and risk management. It also goes further and explores the impact of some corporate governance mechanisms such as ownership structure, board characteristics, and incentive contracts on this relationship. To achieve...

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective

Corporate Social Responsibility – a Study of Dmrc

INTRODUCTION: In India, although practice of CSR is not mandatory for private sector companies but still there are lot of public as well as private companies which have been following the practice of CSR with due diligence. Big corporate houses like TATA and BIRLA are practicing the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for decades, long before CSR become a popular basis. CSR is no longer a mer...