Non-financial information reporting of Polish family and non-family companies. A comparative analysis

• Authors: Martyniuk Olga , Gostkowska-Drzewicka Magdalena

Title variants

PL

Raportowanie informacji niefinansowych polskich firm rodzinnych i nierodzinnych. Analiza porównawcza

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Purpose: According to the principles of the Socioemotional Wealth concept, family firms are particularly attentive to the non-financial aspects of their businesses, as this dimension is closely identified with the owners’ families and their reputation. This research aims to identify the approaches maintained by Polish family firms towards their non-financial information reporting in comparison with their non-family counterparts and examine the quality of the information presented. Methodology/approach: For the theoretical part, the source literature analysis method and the descriptive analysis method were used. The selection of the sample companies was made using a matched-pair analysis. To assess the quality of the ESG disclosures, content analysis and the research design developed by Hąbek and Wolniak (2016) were applied. Findings: Our empirical study supports the initial assumption that family firms’ ESG disclosures are better quality than their non-family counterparts. This applies to both the relevance and credibility of information. The availability of non-financial information to external stakeholders has been rated low for both family and non-family businesses. Research limitations/implications: The study is limited to one country; hence the sug-gestion that similar research be conducted in other countries in the CEE region. This will make it possible to assess whether, in economies that have undergone a process of trans-formation and where family entrepreneurship has a much shorter history than in devel-oped countries, family businesses also undertake and promote CSR activities to a greater extent than non-family firms. The study only focused on listed companies; to strengthen the findings, further research would need to include entities from the SME sector, which dominates most economies. Originality/value: Quality assessment of non-financial reporting is a rarely addressed topic in the literature on non-financial reporting and family businesses. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to focus on the Polish market.

PL

Cel: Zgodnie z założeniami koncepcji bogactwa społecznie-emocjonalnego, firmy rodzinne przywiązują szczególną uwagę do pozafinansowych aspektów swojej działalności, gdyż wymiar ten jest ściśle utożsamiany z rodzinami właścicieli i ich reputacją. Badanie ma na celu porównanie raportowania informacji niefinansowych polskich firm rodzinnych z ich nierodzinnymi odpowiednikami oraz zbadanie jakości informacji prezentowanych przez obie grupy podmiotów. Metodyka/podejście badawcze: Do części teoretycznej zastosowano metodę analizy literatury źródłowej oraz metodę analizy opisowej. Dobór spółek stanowiących próbę ba-dawczą został dokonany za pomocą analizy dopasowanych par. Do oceny jakości ujawnień niefinansowych zastosowano analizę treści oraz wskaźnik jakości ujawnień opracowany przez P. Hąbek i R. Wolniak (2016). Wyniki: Nasze wyniki potwierdzają wstępne założenia o wyższej jakości ujawnień niefi-nansowych firm rodzinnych w porównaniu z ich nierodzinnymi odpowiednikami. Dotyczy to zarówno istotności, jak i wiarygodności informacji. Dostępność informacji niefinanso-wych dla interesariuszy zewnętrznych została oceniona nisko zarówno w przypadku firm rodzinnych, jak i nierodzinnych. Ograniczenia/implikacje badawcze: Badanie ogranicza się do jednego kraju, stąd suge-stia przeprowadzenie podobnych badań w innych krajach regionu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Dzięki temu możliwe będzie dokonanie oceny, czy w gospodarkach, które prze-szły proces transformacji i przedsiębiorczość rodzinna ma znacznie krótszą historię niż w krajach rozwiniętych, firmy rodzinne również podejmują i promują działania CSR w większym stopniu niż firmy nierodzinne. Badanie dotyczyło wyłącznie spółek giełdowych, pogłębiając wnioski w dalszych badaniach należałoby uwzględnić podmioty z sektora MŚP, który dominuje w większości gospodarek. Oryginalność/wartość: Ocena jakości raportowania niefinansowego jest rzadko podej-mowanym tematem w literaturze dotyczącej raportowania niefinansowego i przedsię-biorstw rodzinnych, a to badanie według naszej najlepszej wiedzy jest pierwszym tego rodzaju w Polsce.

Keywords

EN

family firm; non-financial reporting; ESG disclosure; CSR; non-financial in-formation

PL

firmy rodzinne; raportowanie niefinansowe; CSR; informacje niefinansowe; ujawnienia niefinansowe

• Publisher: Stowarzyszenie Księgowych w Polsce (SKwP), Zarząd Główny, Rada Naukowa
• Journal: Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 46(4)
• Pages: 69-91

Contributors

author

Martyniuk Olga

• University of Gdańsk, Corporate Finance Department

author

Gostkowska-Drzewicka Magdalena

• University of Gdańsk, Corporate Finance Department

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