摘要:Business and researchers have paid increasingly more attention to corporate social responsibility
(CSR) disclosure in term of their sustainable reports. These disclosures supply information for not
only managers in strategic decision-making, but also other stakeholders in measuring and evaluating
corporate social performance (CSP). Although the development of literature on CSR disclosure, the
CSR’s measurement is not yet unified because of different perspectives and methodology. The
question is how to measure CSP through analyzing CSR disclosure. This paper aims to present the
theoretical background of CSR and CSR disclosure. Based on the conceptual framework, the
research exposes the drivers of CSR reporting as well as debates prior research on CSR disclosure
and its consequences. Furthermore, a measurement method of CSP proposed building on CSR
disclosure index in this paper. It devotes to enrich the corporate social responsibility reporting
literature, offers implications for practice as well as outlines promising avenues for future research,
especially in the differences of CSR disclosure among different countries.
关键词:corporate social responsibility; corporate social performance; disclosure index