TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors explaining voluntary occupational health and safety disclosures (OHSDs).Design/methodology/approach Annual report disclosures of 223 Indonesia Stock Exchange listed companies for the year ending 2007 are analyzed. The OHSD components of the 2006 Global Reporting Initiative guidelines are used as the disclosure index checklist.Findings The results show that approximately 30 percent of Indonesian listed companies provide OHSD. The most disclosed item is health and safety programs. Logistical regression analysis reveals that industry type and international operations significantly influence the propensity to provide OHSD. These findings suggest that coercive isomorphism partially explains OHSD practices in Indonesia.Research limitations/implications The main implications of the findings are that Indonesian listed companies generally have poor health and safety information disclosure sets and largely ignore the potential roles of their workers in any health and safety committees.Originality/value This paper provides insights into the disclosure practices of occupational health and safety issues, a vital subset of corporate social responsibility disclosure which is still under-researched. The paper also empirically investigates the key determinants of OHSD, an empirical test which is largely ignored in past OHSD-related studies.
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SN  - 2042-1168
DO  - 10.1108/JAEE-04-2015-0032
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JAEE-04-2015-0032
AU  - Cahaya Fitra Roman
AU  - Porter Stacey
AU  - Tower Greg
AU  - Brown Alistair
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Coercive pressures on occupational health and safety disclosures
T2  - Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 318
EP  - 336
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -