%0 Journal Article
%T Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in India: A Study of SENSEX Companies
%A M. Nasir Zamir
%A Shafat Maqbool
%J Management and Labour Studies
%@ 2321-0710
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0258042X19832122
%X This study examines the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure of Indian firms in the wake of the Companies Act, 2013. The annual reports of SENSEX companies for 2016¨C2017 were scanned to observe the dominant field of CSR reporting related to ¡®community development¡¯, ¡®environmental activities¡¯, ¡®human resources¡¯, ¡®products & customer relations¡¯ and ¡®fair business practices¡¯. Analysis of annual reports reveals that ¡®fair business practices¡¯ received most attention followed by ¡®community development¡¯ and ¡®environmental activities¡¯. Likewise, the most reported items have been ¡®education¡¯, ¡®health¡¯ and ¡®energy conservation¡¯. The results show that the CSR disclosure is pronouncedly communicated by ¡®mining and mineral¡¯ companies followed by ¡®power sector¡¯ companies
%K Corporate social responsibility
%K SENSEX companies
%K India
%K content analysis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0258042X19832122