摘要
以2008—2017年我国沪深两市上市化工企业披露的405份社会责任报告为样本,研究企业在不同生命周期阶段社会责任披露水平的差异。结论如下:组内比较可以得出,企业在每个生命周期阶段,对不同利益相关者的责任披露水平不同;组间比较可以得出,在生命周期的不同阶段,企业社会责任披露总水平、对消费者和供应商责任披露水平、对政府和其他社会责任披露水平、对投资者责任披露水平、对环境责任披露水平和对员工责任披露水平存在显著差异。
This paper takes 405 social responsibility reports disclosed by China's chemical listed corporates from 2008 to 2017 as a sample,and studies the differences of corporate social responsibility disclosure in different life cycles.The results show that:from the intra-group comparisons in every life cycle,the corporates have different levels of information disclosure for different stakeholders;from the comparisons of life cycle groups,the total levels of corporate social responsibility information disclosure,the disclosure levels of consumer and supplier responsibility,the disclosure levels of government and other social responsibility,the disclose levels of investor responsibility and the disclose levels of employee responsibility are significantly different in the four stages of the life cycle.
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