Implications of results
Trends intotal corporate social reporting
There is a trend of increasing corporate social disclosure among the top 40 Thai
companies shown by the 45 percent increase intotal words of corporate social
disclosure from 1997 to 2001. This trend may be in response to the promotion of
corporate governance practices in Thai companies since Thailand confronted the
economic crisis of 1997. As no data were collected prior to 1997 this is, however, hard to verify.