CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORTING AND A CONTENT ANALYSIS ON TURKISH COMPANIES

ABSTRACT This study aims to reveal corporate social responsibility approach of Turkey’s top selling and largest companies in ISO 500 list composed based on the year of 2017 data of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry. For that purpose, in the context of criterias that referred in the method section of the research, importance ratings on corporate social responsibility of 17 companies from ISO 500 list have been tried to be specified by analyzing annual reports, in other words sustainability reports through the method of content analysis. Corporate social responsibility activities in sustainability reports are valuable in the way that they point to contribute to the social, environmental, educational, cultural and so forth improvement of companies and society. This topic becomes more important since the companies in this research take part in the largest 250 companies in Turkey economically. Towards the various inferences reached in the consequence of this study, it can be said that companies give place and importance to corporate social responsibility topics. However, they think differently in these topics because they give place to them in different grades, in other words they deem different fields significant in different grades. All these essentially show that companies give importance to corporate social responsibility topics even they are in different grades. Previous studies in this topic also support the findings of this research and make the researchers think that these topics gain importance in the eye of the companies in Turkey as the time goes by