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Environmental Transparency and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Preliminary Finding in Indonesian Industry During COVID-19
Environmental transparency play a considerable part in the firm’s sustainability and important for decision strategy during abnormal economy. Board have main role getting effectively direction of environmental-friendly investment ie corporate social responsibility in achieving sustainability goal Environment, Social, and Governance scores provide transparency of information that is useful to both investors and managers of fims. As the growing industrial world grew, it had an increasing impact as well. Thus, people’s hopes for responsibility and firm concern for the environment emerged. This research uses purposive sampling approach and the sample included infrastructure, health, basic material, nom-primer, and insutrial sector of firm listed IDX during 2019-2020. We use board size and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure as proxy of environmental transparency, therefore the measurement of corporate sustainability performance (CSP) using three indicators of it are economic, social, and environmental. The study results shows that environmental transparency
of Indonesian industry increased during covid-19 but tend to less their participation in corporate social responsibility. The higest value of environment transparency in automotive industry and then farmacy industry have highest value of CSP. There is significant effect of environmental transparency to CSP for both board size and CSR. During abnormal economy, a firm should still keeping it transparency of governance and continue the CSR program specially for social and environment aspect.