Factors Affecting Corporate Social Responsibility Web Disclosure: Evidence from the Consumer Sector in Indonesia

Abstract

An increasing number of companies disclose information about their financial performance, however, publishing Corporate Social Responsibility information on company’s websites is still limited. This study examines the factors affecting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) web disclosure, as well as examine whether firms with high CSR web disclosure are less likely to engage in earnings management. Corporate Social Responsibility may indicate transparent and reliable financial statements. To do so, we investigate factors that affect the extensiveness of CSR web disclosure. In addition, we investigate the impact financial statement quality on CSR web disclosure. Based on a content analysis of the CSR web disclosure of consumer sector of Indonesia listed companies, this research analyzes the content of CSR disclosures with respect to the following four themes, include environmental information, employee information, community involvement information, and products information areas. Companies publish their CSR disclosure on company’s websites only during the year, therefore we could not collect data on its prior year. Using a sample of 94 consumer sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2020, our OLS regression results indicate that company size has a significant effect on CSR web disclosure. In contrast, there is no association between public share ownership, board of commissioner size, audit committee size, profitability, and leverage, on CSR web disclosure. We find no evidence of companies with high-level CSR web disclosure publishing more transparent and reliable financial statement than companies with low-level CSR web disclosure.