Corporate social responsibility in the chemicals, agriculture and financial sectors: an analysis of companies' non-financial reports

Corporate social responsibility has a huge importance in the development of business and in its success. Every year more and more companies implement the practice of corporate social responsibility in their activities in order to achieve positive financial results and improve relationships with their stakeholders. Despite the fact that corporate social responsibility became popular in the late 1980's, there is not much scientific literature in the field of analysis of corporate social activities in various industries. This was confirmed by results of bibliometric analysis. The purpose of this article was to analyze corporate social activities of companies in the chemicals, agriculture and financial industries. The analysis was carried out on the basis of non-financial reports of Russian and foreign companies from the Forbes list of 200 largest companies in the field of corporate social responsibility. The author used content analysis and descriptive statistics. The results of the analysis may be useful for future research. This study contributes to the literature on corporate social responsibility.

Forbes, corporate social responsibility, CSR, non-financial reports, stakeholders, Forbes