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E-CSR Report Management

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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China

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In recent years, the voice of requiring corporations to undertake social responsibility from stakeholders rises day by day. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become the necessary responsibility and obligation of corporations; at the same time, many companies are beginning to make CSR as a strategic investment to improve corporation’s core competitiveness. Almost all of the listed companies released the CSR report online. However, until now, there is no clear definition of the CSR report in the current study. This chapter refers to this report as E-CSR Reports. E-CSR Reports can be more widely disseminated the CSR report to stakeholders through the Internet or E-business.

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Shin, KY. (2014). E-CSR Report Management. In: Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54152-0_10

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