Furthermore, board independence (BIND) is seen to have consistent effects on all four CSR disclosure dimensions, i.e. BIND is positively and significantly related to COMDIS, ENVDIS and PRODIS. According to agency theory, independent directors can put pressure on companies to engage in these categories of CSR to ensure organisational legitimacy. However, CEO duality (CEODU) is negatively related to EMPDIS and PRODIS. CEO power may enable him/her to make decisions that do not take into account of the greater interests of stakeholders. 6. Conclusions The overarching aim of this study was to assess whether ownership and board composition affect CSR disclosures by Indian firms. The results of our study reveal that both foreign and government ownership have positive impacts on the level of CSR disclosures, but promoter ownership has negligible effects. Our study also indicates that board independence is strongly associated with greater levels of CSR disclosure, and CEO duality has a negative impact. These results provide deeper insights into the drivers of CSR reporting within Indian firms, thus enriching other earlier studies that predominantly focussed only on describing the CSR practices and type of information disclosed (Murthy and Abeysekera, 2008; Narwal and Singh, 2013).