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4. Measuring the Quality of Non-financial Risk-Related Disclosure

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Abstract

In the chapter we introduce the main research question of the book, namely, RQ: Does quality mandatory NF risk disclosure affect investors’ decisions? The answer to the research question requires a context in which to carry out the research (we justified the choice of Italy in the previous section), the analytical framework for NF risk-related disclosure to employ and an adequate methodology to measure quality NF risk disclosure. As for the framework for the mandatory NF risk disclosure, we focus on the NF risk disclosure categories as provided by the EU Directive implemented by the Legislative Decree 254/2016, preceded by a brief illustration of the other main existing frameworks of NF risk disclosure. As for the methodology, we focus on the most widely used method to measure narrative disclosure, the content analysis, focusing on the main approach that can be followed by researchers to content analyse corporate documents, that is, mechanistic and interpretive content analysis, also presenting the main empirical studies employing automated and manual content analysis. The last sections of the chapter are devoted to the concept of quality of disclosure and how it can be operationalized, to end with the self-constructed quality disclosure index used in our research to measure the mandatory NF risk-related information disclosure.

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Footnotes
1
According to Krippendorff (2004), content analysis as a research methodology has its early origins in the ‘inquisitional pursuits by the Church in the seventeenth century’, when the Church became worried about the spread of non-religious printed matter after the invention of the printing press and thus began the pursuit of analysing texts to ensure they were in keeping with the doctrines of the Church (Dovring 2008). At the end of the nineteenth century, the proliferation of newspapers reignited interest in content analysis as methodology to analyse the social content of newspaper (Weber 2008) conducted content analysis research using newspapers as a source until such time as other forms of mass media, such as radio, became prominent (Krippendorff 2004).
 
2
It is important here to make a distinction between the reliability and validity. According to Krippendorff (2008, p. 350), reliability ‘is the extent to which data can be trusted to represent the phenomena of interest rather than spurious ones’. Validity, on the other hand, occurs when ‘a measuring instrument … measures what it purports to measure’ (Janis 2008, p. 359).
 
3
Coverage is the percentage of environmental topics (sub-items) disclosed by the company out of the total number of topics disclosed within the index. Dispersion measures the concentration of the items disclosed. Depth depends on the type of measures used to disclose the environmental information. These measures range from no disclosure (score = 0; minimum score) to general narrative disclosure (score = 1 score) to benchmarking disclosure (score = 4; maximum score) to reflect the usefulness of disclosed information.
 
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The term objectivity refers to an empiricist notion of objectivity where judgemental criteria are derived from the inherent ‘internal’ qualities of the disclosure contents. Subjectivity, on the other hand, relates to the instances where the judgemental criteria emanating from an ‘external’ framework or theory are superimposed on the disclosure contents.
 
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The section is based on a work written with Francesco De Luca and Ho-Tan-Phat Phan (Veltri et al. 2020).
 
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Metadata
Title
Measuring the Quality of Non-financial Risk-Related Disclosure
Author
Stefania Veltri
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47921-3_4