This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, which affects the development and application of environmental accounting and reporting, as a basis...

Over the past 30 years sustainability has become increasingly important to scholarly research and business in practice. This book explores a variety of challenges faced by businesses when becoming sustainable and how this links to economic development and its corruption, ethical and taxation...

This book addresses key issues related to the choice between governments regulating and enforcing society’s sustainability and social responsibility objectives, and firms reporting on their sustainable and socially responsible activities so stakeholders can exert pressure on firms to achieve...

This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives. The wider economic responsibilities of organizations have been identified...

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool. The book proposes a system in which social audit is regulated so as to provide a mechanism for effectively promoting corporate accountability in society. Taking this as its...

Unternehmensverantwortung - zwischen Freiwilligkeit und Regulierung -- Staatliche Schutzpflicht und Rechtsschutz in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland -- Mangelnder Schutz der Betroffenen in ausgwählten Produktionsländern -- Freiwillige CSR Initiativen zur Umsetzung von...

Corporate Social Responsibility -- CSR Management -- Overview of CSR Report -- The Current Situation and Development Trend of Global CSR -- Current Situation and Development Trend of CSR Report in China -- Management Framework for CSR Report -- The Reference Standard of CSR Report -- The...

Corporate Governance und Compliance -- Berichterstattung -- Bewertung und Kalkulation -- Zinseffekte und Diskontierung -- Immaterielles Vermögen -- Nachhaltigkeit -- Steuerliche Aspekte -- Wertorientierte Steuerungssysteme -- Performancesteuerung.

Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement -- Stakeholder-Management -- Nachhaltigkeits-Reporting als Steuerungsinstrument -- Nachhaltigkeits-Reporting als Kommunikationsinstrument -- Internationale und nationale Standards -- Nachhaltigkeitsprüfungen -- Auszeichnungen, Ratings und Rankings. .