The significance of global environmental issues have been further propelled to the forefront, with the current public awareness highlighted by the 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore's global warming statements and the Stern review. As the most populous nation...

This article provides a critique of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) guidelines, sustainability reporting (SR) guidelines and also examines their applicability to public and third sector organizations. The article finds that these guidelines promote a ‘managerialist' approach to...

Private sector and public sector organizations, including private listed companies, government departments, statutory authorities and government business enterprises are under increasing pressure to disclose information about the organization's interaction with the natural and physical...

Internationally, there is growing awareness of the environmental and social impacts of the business activities of organizations. This awareness was heightened by the 1987 report Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED, 1987). In order to address the...

Recent years have witnessed a substancia increase in the reporting on social and environmental (SE) issues by major corporations (Gray, 2006). A recent trends indicates that organizations have move on from the terms 'social and environmental reporting', to the more vague term, 'sustainability'...

In recent years there has been a substantial increase in reporting on social and environmental (SE) issues by major corporations (Gray, 2006). There has been relatively little research into public sector agencies' reporting of SE disclosures and little interest in ascertaining the views of...