Global reporting initiatives and firm performance: a stakeholder's perspective in Indian companies

With the growth of the corporate sector, there is a simultaneous increase in external forces that pressurize the corporate sector to practice socially responsible behavior. Based on this, the practice of reporting sustainable and socially responsible activities is being used by companies in different manners in different countries. In view of this, the purpose of the study is to empirically analyze the financial performance of sustainability reporting and non-reporting companies from the stakeholder's perspective. The study is longitudinal, covering a time span of 22 years. The parameters of financial performance are categorized and statistically analyzed based on the stakeholders considered in the study. Based on the analysis, the study has found no evidence of difference in the financial performance from the stakeholder's perspective between sustainability reporting and non-reporting companies. The paper has contributed to the literature by analyzing the financial performance of companies from the stakeholder's perspective through longitudinal study.