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An exploratory study of website environmental reporting in Turkey

Introduction It is ironic that environmental reporting in developing countries and the study of that reporting is as scarce as it is. The environmental issue is more acute in these countries because the current world economic system characterised by increasing globalisation, international trade and international capital flows in terms of FDI, portfolio investments and debt puts these countries in an unfavourable and asymmetric position vis-à-vis developed countries and MNCs. It may be argued that three contradictions of capitalism identified by Amin (1998) as economic alienation, global polarisation (uneven development) and destruction of environment are interrelated and become even more important when the issue of environmental reporting is explored from the viewpoint of the developing world. Therefore, even though it is harder to have access to information on these countries, analysis of environmental reporting in these countries is expected to add important insights to the environmental reporting literature as well as literature on world economic system. This article attempts to explore the absence / presence of environ­ mental reporting in Turkey with a comparative content analysis of websites of a sample of ISE-30 listed companies and MNCs in Turkey.