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Purpose This paper aims to highlight the greenhouse gas emissions disclosures in sustainability reports of the automotive industry both from headquarters and Turkish subsidiaries. Further, it aims to understand to what extent these corporations disclose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Design/methodology/approach The sample of the research consists of the global brands Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Daimler and Fiat. Global and national sustainability reports from headquarters and local subsidiaries are examined. To determine the disclosure for emissions content analysis is conducted. The GRI 305: Emissions standard, which sets out the reporting requirements on the issue emissions is used to identify the disclosures both from headquarters and subsidiaries. Findings The sector-specific findings show that all sustainability reports from headquarters disclose much more specific information on greenhouse gas emissions than the reports from subsidiaries. Corporations that offer the most comprehensive sustainability reports disclose the least pages in environmental information. However, presenting the least information does not mean that these reports are rare in quality. Especially, two corporations who offer the least pages on environmental issues fully disclosed the classification of GRI 305: Emissions standard. It can be stated that these corporations emphasize the quality and not the quantity of disclosure. Although, local subsidiaries are not reporting to the extent as headquarters do good applications together with specific information are applied. Originality/value The investigation contributes to the research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) by exploring the GHG emissions disclosures across borders by analyzing sustainability reports of both the headquarters of the automotive industry and their local subsidiaries as the actual production units in Turkey.

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature defines instrumental, strategic and political approaches to CSR. The strategic approach to CSR in transnational corporations goes beyond the customer orientated short time issue management, persuasion and financial performance, but emphasizes a long time perspective based on planned, implemented and evaluated projects to create business value. The research in this paper focuses on the corporate communication directors conception of corporate social responsibility. Participants from transnational and Turkish national corporations have been interviewed and qualitatively analysed. Thefindingsshowthatallinterviewedparticipantsare enthusiastic about the concept of social responsibility. They define CSR as the "raison d'etre of the company" or "the sine qua non of sustainability is social responsibility". Two of three Turkish national corporations' CSR conception can be defined as a stage between instrumental and strategic, because CSR in these corporations is more customer orientated with limited or short time influence at the one side, but also implemented for sustainability and to create business value on the other side. The CSR perspective of a Turkish national company based on a farmers union established half a century in order to serve the interests of the local community and stimulate development is clearly political. The conception of sustainability and responsiveness to stakeholders was inherent in the establishment of this particular firm. We conclude that there is a remarkable agreement between the CSR directors' perspective and the firm's organizational behaviour and that the cases follow the classification described in the literature to some extent.

Since the day it entered the lives of individuals, television has increased its effect on individuals and gotten ahead of the primary sources in individuals' conceptualization of reality. The images reflected from television have imposed who, which groups or which value judgments are important in society to the minds of individuals, and these images have played an active role in the internalization of the statement that dominancedependent relations are unchangeable, even if it is, it can only change into being worse. The subject of this study comprises of television series, which is the most preferred program type following the news by the audience in Turkey. Therefore, the aim of the study is to reveal what kind of a world depiction is offered to television's audience. To achieve this, 24 television series broadcasted during primetime on 7 national channels with the highest ratings have been subjected to Message System Analysis, the second stage of Cultural Indicators Project created by George Gerbner in the late 1960s. As a result of the analysis, it has been detected that violence is intensely used, old individuals and some groups in society are ignored and various groups comprising of genders, age groups and socio-economical statuses are unevenly represented when compared with their rates in society in television series broadcasted during primetime in Turkey in a way to represent the dominant content in USA's televisions; in other words, it has been found that the television series represent a distorted image of reality.

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