Revisiting the ‘how’ of corporate social responsibility in extractive industries and forestry

Ranängen, Helena; Zobel, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.02.020

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“…These findings are in line with other international studies on CSR in the forest sector, which show that disclosure is particularly focused on environmental dimension and, to a certain degree, other economic and social issues [1,2,26] (see also a review by Ranängen and Zobel [66]). Previous studies [1,2] have pointed out that Asian forestry companies are typically more concerned with environmental performance, in particular the control of air emissions, energy efficiency, and recycling programs, compared to other parts of the world: health programs prominently featured in Africa and European companies considering CSR activities in a broader sense from both environmental and social perspectives.…”

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Factors Influencing Levels of CSR Disclosure by Forestry Companies in China

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Abstract:With the international community's increasing concern for social and environmental problems, the fulfilment and disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been advocated and promoted across the world. Forestry companies, which are particularly sensitive to environmental and social issues, are increasingly developing and improving their levels of CSR disclosure. However, information on emerging country contexts is still lacking. To fill this gap, this study focuses on Chinese forestry companies' CSR disclosure and introduces new disclosure indices through content analysis of annual reports by listed companies between 2011 and 2015. It then builds a correlation analysis of the factors influencing these companies' disclosure indices in order to gain a better understanding of the current situation for CSR implementation by forestry companies in emerging economies like China. Although context-specific, our findings can provide a reference for researchers and policy makers, and promote sustainable development via improved CSR disclosure by forestry companies, especially in developing regions.

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“…This is in contrast to other studies that have been conducted in other industry contexts on CSR activities of Chinese companies [68]. That said, the results of this study are in line with prior studies regarding the role of firm size on influencing CSR disclosure [23,26,66,68].…”

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Factors Influencing Levels of CSR Disclosure by Forestry Companies in China

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“…Similarly, the most successful companies are those that have incorporated the three sustainability dimensions of economic, ecological-environmental and equity-social sustainability in their business practices (Amini & Bienstock, 2014). Nevertheless, there seems to be a lack of knowledge regarding CSR development in Europe as indicated by Rananger & Zobel (2014). The main difficulty expressed here is the manner in which CSR has been addressed in the business sector.…”

Section: Environmental Management and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Analyzing Consumers’ Awareness towards CSR, Focusing on Environmental Management

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Kostakis

2017

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The deployment of environmental friendly business practices is strongly related to the principles of the sustainable development. The customers are an important stakeholder group that appears to be sensitive to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions of a company. The environmental dimension is increasingly being included as a pillar of a company's CSR plan. The aim of this study is to examine the determinants that affect consumers' awareness of the environmental dimension of a company's CSR plan, called hereafter corporate environmental responsible (CER) activities. Results suggest that consumers' awareness Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2017 http://emsd.macrothink.org 52 towards CER practices is differentiated regarding their demographic profile. Highly educated and middle aged consumers are more sensitive to corporate environmental responsible practices. The income of a consumer is not a statistically significant factor though regarding their awareness of environmentally responsible firms.

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“…The literature review and the sustainability reports study identified a number of sustainability initiatives, guidelines and tools for the mining industry that are either practised by the industry or have been studied in previous research (Raufflet et al, 2014, Ranängen & Zobel, 2014. These initiatives, guidelines and tools have different approaches and include different sustainability criteria.…”

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confidence: 99%