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Corporate social responsibility reporting

The discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained considerable momentum in recent years with all signs indicating that this movement will continue with even greater force throughout the remainder of 2009 and into 2010. Business leaders that have had CSR programs up and running for several years will tell you that when their programs started there was very little measuring and ...

Jun. 2, 2009

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

Corporate social responsibility reporting - a transnational analysis of online corporate social responsibility reports by market–listed companies: contents and their evolution

This paper describes the analysis of online Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports published by 97 market–listed companies from the USA, Germany and the rest of Europe. It points out regional differences as well as changes over time by performing both, a qualitative and a quantitative content analysis. The qualitative analysis focuses on four main aspects: (a) Why? Why do companies ...

Feb. 15, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

An overview of CSR reporting development in China

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting nowadays is an important issue in most countries. Due to environmental pollution problems and social disparities in China, CSR has become a prominent issue in Chinese academic and policy forums as well. Therefore, the paper shall give an up to date insight in the CSR development in China. An international perspective is given. Based on literature ...

Oct. 3, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Motivations of legitimacy theory for CSR reporting in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria: a theoretical framework

In the past, most CSR researchers have relied on stakeholder theory (SHT) as the basis for explaining corporate social and environmental disclosures. However, recent evidence from extant studies shows that legitimacy theory (LT) is gaining wider acceptability amongst scholars in their quest to explain the motivations behind corporate social and environmental disclosures. In an attempt to gain, ...

Oct. 1, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Measuring quality of sustainability reports and assurance statements: characteristics of the high quality reporting companies

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) can be considered as one of the most extensively used model of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. The assurance statement (AS) is the mechanism to give trust to stakeholders about the accuracy of the information published in the sustainability reports (SRs). Within this backdrop, the objective of this paper is to design a model to evaluate the ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Case Study - El Paso Corporation

In 2005, El Paso Corporation contracted E2 to assist in the evaluation of existing environmental information management business processes and systems, and ultimately to provide strategic recommendations for improved environmental information management for twenty functional EHS topics. E2 established key objectives with workshop participants. The collective objectives identified for the project ...

Apr. 22, 2010

By E2 ManageTech

Corporate Social Responsability Benchmark Study: Report Summary

In the context of an ever-changing, globally connected society, businesses face new and different risks in providing goods and services. A new trend for multi-national corporations is to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to address these risks and move towards opportunity with greater transparency than ever before. For nearly a decade, Environmental Resource Services (ERS) ...

May 1, 2005

By ERS Global

A study of the new trend in the development of corporate social responsibility in China

Nowadays, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is attracting nationwide attention. The wave of CSR development in China was first fostered by the development of industry chain in western countries and now displays a new trend in its development. This paper explores and analyses the latest development of CSR in China from the perspectives of enterprise, government and society. It then points out ...

Jun. 25, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

5 reasons for SMBs to implement a sustainability software solution

Sustainability Software Solution for SMBS There is no question that sustainability management has officially entered the business world in the past few years. The numerous benefits are now well known. Certainly, public awareness of climate change, pollution and many other social and environmental matters have helped made businesses align to public demand, or even drive it for the most modern ...

Jul. 7, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

CSR: Drivers and challenges

CSR: drivers and challenges - European Business Forum Special Report on Corporate Social Responsibility. Companies are investing heavily in the managing and reporting of social and environmental issues but they are still not incorporating CSR into strategy. If a company wants to understand how Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability issues might contribute to value creation, it must ...

May 1, 2004

By Terrafiniti LLP

New book provides some canadian insight on corporate sustainability

Managing a business can be an overwhelming task for even the most seasoned of executive leaders. With all the various aspects, components and divisions of a company to oversee and manage, not to mention maintaining a healthy bottom line, there is a lot to keep a lid on in order to stay on top. In addition to the “business as usual” operations that are critical to running a successful business, ...

Oct. 15, 2009

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

5 Must-have Features for Your Sustainability Software

What is the right feature set for your sustainability software? Calculating your CO2 footprint has never been that easy: online calculators help you with the math, online forms help you record all the information, and automated reports help you communicate. Today, sustainability software solutions are available and making a difference. Sustainability software solutions go far beyond simple ...

Jun. 12, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

A greener company makes for happier employees more so than does a more valuable one: a regression analysis of employee satisfaction, perceived environmental performance and firm financial value

This paper tests two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that employee satisfaction is positively impacted when a company is perceived as performing well environmentally. The second hypothesis is that employee satisfaction is positively impacted by firm financial performance. To test these hypotheses, the relationships between perceived environmental performance, financial performance and ...

Jan. 19, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Critical reflections of the triple bottom line as a schema for reporting: a practitioners' view

Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting has become a way of life in terms of non–financial reporting at major corporations. However, its utility in terms of value–add for these corporations seems to be a mystery at present. This paper aims to look at how corporations use the TBL as a framework for reporting and what limitations key members of these corporations see with the TBL approach. In ...

Mar. 30, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Corporate Reporting in the New Age of Transparency

Much has been written of late about the growing importance of corporate reporting, particularly in what many describe as the ‘new age of transparency’. Corporate disclosure of environmental and sustainability related data has grown exponentially over the past decade, and its importance in demonstrating that superior performance on climate change and resource efficiency correlates ...

Feb. 26, 2014

By GLOBE SERIES

Towards sustainable success through corporate social responsibility disclosure: an Islamic approach

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the West teaches that companies are not only responsible to their shareholders, through profit making, but that they also have a corporate social responsibility to the other stakeholders as well as society overall. In some ways, this concept is likely to be consistent with the concept of tawhid (oneness of God) and maqasid al shariah ...

Jul. 29, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

How to Communicate & Promote Your Sustainability Report for Maximum Value

Congratulations! After months of slogging through all the data, aggregating and analyzing materials from across your organization and coaxing it into a format you feel is both compelling and informative, you’ve finally done it. You’ve published your sustainability report! The question you should now be asking yourself is, “What next?” That’s because your work ...

Sep. 29, 2015

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

Paving the Way for Corporate Benchmarking in the Waste Sector

Most of the major players in the waste industry have begun publishing environmental performance data using a set of indicators developed in a ground-breaking initiative with the Green Alliance. Companies are clear that there are internal and external benefits to be gained from the exercise, but opinion is divided over whether the indicators can be used to compare companies' performance. ...

Jan. 1, 2003

By Environmental News and Data Services (ENDS)

An empirical examination of the risk associated with corporate social responsibility disclosures and firms size

This paper basically examined the relationship between the size of firms and the level of corporate social responsibility disclosures made by 30 listed companies, across six industries in Nigeria. While the content analysis technique was used as a basis for eliciting data from the annual report/corporate websites of the selected companies, the linear regression method of data analysis was used to ...

Sep. 6, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Better governance: To avoid risks or to create value?

In this article, George Dallas argues that corporate governance should not be looked at as an external discipline that imposes costs, but rather as an internal discipline that adds value — it is about creating a corporate culture that embodies and implements core values and principles intended to enhance the quality and sustainability of a firm's future performance. CAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE BE A ...

Jul. 1, 2009

By AHC Group

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