Disclosure of Sustainability Information Under the Corporate Social Responsibility Directive: The Degree of Compliance of Portuguese Stock Index Companies

Graça Azevedo (), Jonas Oliveira, Ivone Sousa, Maria Fátima Borges, Maria C. Tavares and José Vale ()
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Graça Azevedo: Higher Institute for Accountancy and Administration, University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Jonas Oliveira: BRU-Iscte—Business Research Unit (IBS), ISCTE—Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal
Ivone Sousa: Higher Institute for Accountancy and Administration, University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Maria Fátima Borges: Higher Institute for Accountancy and Administration, University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Maria C. Tavares: Higher Institute for Accountancy and Administration, University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
José Vale: CEOS.PP—Centre for Organisational and Social Studies of Polytechnic of Porto, Porto Accounting and Business School, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4465-004 Matosinhos, Portugal

IJFS, 2025, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Europe has just published a new Directive on Corporate Sustainability Reporting disclosure and is elaborating new European Sustainability Reporting Standards. To analyze whether companies are complying with the new disclosure requirements before the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CRSD) on sustainability comes into force, a content analysis was carried out on the corporate reports of 12 companies in the Portuguese Stock Index of Euronext Lisbon for the year 2022, complemented by the score analysis technique. From the study of general disclosures (European Sustainability Reporting Standards—ESRS 2), we concluded that although some companies already comply with various requirements of this standard, they are not disclosing all the information required by ESRS 2 on sustainability. We also concluded, by analyzing the companies’ reports for 2022, that the requirements of the CSRD have different levels of disclosure.

Keywords: CSRD; content analysis; disclosure; score analysis; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F3 F41 F42 G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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