CSRCZ: A Dataset About Corporate Social Responsibility in Czech Republic

TL;DR

This paper introduces CSRCZ, a novel publicly available dataset of corporate social responsibility disclosures from 1000 Czech companies, enabling data-driven CSR research and analysis of disclosure practices.

Contribution

The paper presents the creation and description of CSRCZ, the first public dataset of Czech corporate CSR reports, facilitating future empirical research in this area.

Findings

Dataset includes 1000 companies' CSR reports

Analyzed based on company size, industry, and initiatives

Potential to improve understanding of CSR disclosure practices

Abstract

As stakeholders' pressure on corporates for disclosing their corporate social responsibility operations grows, it is crucial to understand how efficient corporate disclosure systems are in bridging the gap between corporate social responsibility reports and their actual practice. Meanwhile, research on corporate social responsibility is still not aligned with the recent data-driven strategies, and little public data are available. This paper aims to describe CSRCZ, a newly created dataset based on disclosure reports from the websites of 1000 companies that operate in Czech Republic. Each company was analyzed based on three main parameters: company size, company industry, and company initiatives. We describe the content of the dataset as well as its potential use for future research. We believe that CSRCZ has implications for further research, since it is the first publicly available dataset of its kind.