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This paper aims to report on CSR reportage amongst four leading banks in Ghana. Two of them have won CSR industry awards while the others have not.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>A case study approach was adopted using Hinson <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic>'s online CSR framework to analyze CSR reportage in the four banks. Two of them (one indigenous and the other, local) had previously won CSR awards at a Ghana Banking Awards ceremony in the last five years, and two had not. The data drawn from the banks were analyzed within and across the four cases.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Agricultural development bank, the bank with the most socially responsible bank of the year awards, has the weakest online CSR reportage in the study with just one CSR report online.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>CSR communication is a rapidly evolving field of scholarship and this study adds to the extant literature from a developing economy banking perspective.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/14779961111148622","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,6,18]],"date-time":"2011-06-18T07:18:17Z","timestamp":1308381497000},"page":"102-115","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Online CSR reportage of award\u2010winning versus non award\u2010winning banks in Ghana"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Robert","family":"Ebo Hinson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022013020065751900_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alnajjar, F. 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