Komunikowanie działań CSR w procesie społecznie odpowiedzialnego inwestowania

The effectiveness of the enterprise's current activity and achieving its development objectives is inextricably linked to the raising the adequate amount of capital. Finding investors increasingly is determined not only by building financial credibility. During the process of selecting the portfolio, many investors complements traditional financial criteria by additional set of corporate social responsibility rules. The development of socially responsible investing causes the interest in increased activity of enterprises in providing information not only in the financial but also in the social and environmental perspective. The aim of the article is to present the importance of communication of CSR activities in the process of socially responsible investing. The starting point for the implementation of a such formulated purpose was to present theoretical basis of the concept of socially responsible investing as well as the issues related to CSR communication, which may support this type of investing. Next, the paper focuses on the analysis of approach to communication of socially responsible activities by companies included in RESPECT Index. Results of the research lead to the conclusion that companies included in the RESPECT Index are aware of the importance of disclosing information concerning corporate social responsibility. Most of them are not limited to communicating economic, social and environmental issues within activity reports, but in addition, publish separate CSR reports or integrated reports which present in one document both financial and non-financial aspects of business activity.