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Ernährungswirtschaft untersucht. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf der Frage, ob die Gesellschaft die moderne, auf Produktivität …-food-industry. The main focus of the analysis is on the question, whether society is judging the modern productivity-driven industry …
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Corporate sustainability reports are supposed to provide a complete and balanced picture of corporate sustainability performance. They are, however, usually voluntary and thus prone to interpretation and even greenwashing tendencies. To overcome this problem, the Global Reporting Initiative...
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Sustainability reporting and assurance of sustainability reports have been used by organizations in an attempt to provide accountability to their stakeholders. A better understanding of current practices is important to provide a base for comparative and trend analyses. This paper aims to...
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–up.” While top–down approaches are commonly adopted by businesses, bottom–up approaches are more often adopted by civil society …
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Recent years have witnessed a steady growth of the number of firms that report on social and environmental information in separate reports, usually according to international standards, like the Global Reporting Initiative. This process has become more important in Spain than in other European...
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This study analyses the evolution of sustainability reporting in Italian listed companies taking into account some differences between 2002 and 2011 reporting practices. The analysis is aimed at showing the presence of normative and mimetic isomorphic pressures towards sustainability reporting...
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The increasing involvement of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in global governance has been both applauded for its potential to make governance more effective and criticized for lacking democratic legitimization. Hence we investigate the effectiveness of one transnational governance regime,...
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The increasing importance of sustainability issues expressed by different types of stakeholders has placed them among the leading topics inside the accounting literature. The paper aims to extend the current knowledge through the analysis of the relation between the number of sustainability...
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to set out the nature of the assurance of sustainability reporting and its key principles. Further aim is to identify the potential benefits of the assurance of sustainability reporting for hotel companies, and also to discuss the conditions necessary for...
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