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Sustainability Reporting: A Challenge Worthwhile

Author : Matthias S. Fifka

Published in: Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Sustainability reporting (SR) is increasingly becoming a standard, especially among large companies, and the publication of a respective report can be considered a common business practice nowadays among multinational corporations. In a recent study, KPMG (2011) found that 95 % of the world’s largest 250 corporations issued such a report. 10 years earlier, only 45 % had done so (KPMG 2002). Moreover, SR has not only become a standard, it has also gradually been standardized with regard to the content disclosed. In 2011, already 80 % of the world’s largest 250 corporations applied the guidelines provided by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for determining the contents of their reports.

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Metadata
Title
Sustainability Reporting: A Challenge Worthwhile
Author
Matthias S. Fifka
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-38752-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-38753-1

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38753-1_16