The main purpose of this paper is to better understand how sustainability rating agencies, through discourse, promote an “ideology of numbers” that ultimately aims to establish a regime of normalization governing social and environmental performance. Drawing on Thompson’s (Ideology and...

The objective of this dissertation is to examine, under a sociological lens, the new practice of the corporate sustainability performance measurement. This emerging practice seems to be a social space where are structured various games of power, confrontation and resistance of many actors...

Ce manuscrit vise à mieux comprendre la façon dont les organismes de mesure de la performance socio-environnementale légitiment leur nouvelle pratique. En se basant sur certains éléments de la sociologie de la traduction, la présente étude cherche à explorer, notamment, les stratégies...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to longitudinally explore the symbolic and substantive ideological strategies located in ENGIE’s environmental discourse while considering the specific negative media context surrounding the company’s environmental activities....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of climate change rating organisations on rated firms, to understand whether disclosure ratings can facilitate enhanced emissions performance. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses 1,848 cross-country firm-year observations...