Purpose – Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is receiving increased attention from the mainstream accounting research community. In general, this recently published research has failed to engage significantly with prior CSR-themed studies. The purpose of this paper is threefold....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of graphs in corporate sustainability reports and attempt to determine, first, whether the use of graphs appears to be associated with attempts at impression management, and second, whether differences across three levels of...

This study investigates whether sustainability reporting assurance (SRA) providers appear to use sustainability restatements as a means to create legitimacy in the developing SRA market, where a large number of firms have yet to commit to SRA (untapped profits). We argue that, in comparison to...

Purpose – The authors aims to examine, first, what factors appear to lead those US companies that do obtain assurance on their CSR reports to do so, and second, whether this assurance appears to be valued by market participants. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use logistic...