Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Social and environmental reporting practices of the gambling industry: an Australian perspective

The research "Social and environmental reporting practices of the gambling industry: an Australian perspective" explores the corporate social and environmental disclosure (CSD) practices of Australian gambling companies to understand what information is reported in CSDs, and why. The first part of the study performs an analysis of the two gambling companies; annual reports (1995-2009) to investigate the changing trend of the CSDs. The results show that the CSDs practices appear to be directly driven by external pressures, which suggests that CSDs are used more for legitimation purposes rather than for demonstrating accountability to stakeholders.