Disclosure of corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector of the Congo Basin

Colaço, Rui; Simão, João

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Disclosure of corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector of the Congo Basin

2018Journal article

datacite.subject.sdg	09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas	pt_PT
dc.contributor.author	Colaço, Rui
dc.contributor.author	Simão, João
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-20T16:18:51Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-20T16:18:51Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	The Congo Basin (CB) region is highly relevant in both environmental and social terms. Due to the various roles and meanings that forests play in the region, it becomes urgent to understand how forestry companies disclose their (alleged) corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. This work aims at identifying which CSR themes are more often disclosed by companies, and verifying geographical patterns according to their headquarters location, in a region where studies on the subject are scarce. A grid of CSR themes enabled the analysis of the website contents of 37 forestry sector firms operating in the CB. Companies were divided in three geographical regions, according to the location of their headquarters: West, Africa, and Asia. The results suggest that the companies value timber certification and prefer to focus on disclosing environmental themes related to their operations. Education and health are the most disclosed themes, in line with contractual obligations. There is a clear relation between the disclosure and the geographical origin of the companies: Western companies disclose more than their Asian and African counterparts. The near-absence of disclosure around human and workers' rights by Asian companies is notorious.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.forpol.2018.04.012	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/8935
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Elsevier	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Corporate social responsibility	pt_PT
dc.subject	Congo Basin	pt_PT
dc.subject	Forestry sector	pt_PT
dc.subject	Disclosure	pt_PT
dc.subject	Environment	pt_PT
dc.subject	Social	pt_PT
dc.title	Disclosure of corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector of the Congo Basin	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.endPage	147	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	136	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Forest Policy and Economics	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	92	pt_PT
person.familyName	Simão
person.givenName	João
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rcaap.type	article	pt_PT
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