Rethinking Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Business Reporting
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
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Interests: intellectual capital; intangibles; management accounting; integrated reporting; social and sustainability accounting; case study; qualitative research
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Corporate reporting is increasingly being required to communicate how sustainability is embedded in the corporate vision, how it informs the value creation process and the business strategy, and how it sustains environmental, social, and financial performances. A holistic and integrated representation of sustainability is the new frontier for managers and it is required by both financial and non-financial stakeholders. Hence, these issues are relevant both from an external and from an internal reporting point of view and involve private, public, third sector, and hybrid perspectives.
In addition, the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework provides both an opportunity and a need for research on current challenges faced by companies who are required to implement SDGs.
Given this background, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Sustainability with the general theme of “Rethinking Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Business Reporting”.
The objective of this Special Issue is to publish high-quality papers that contribute to promoting our understanding of how these emerging challenges affect business reporting practices (i.e., including not only Sustainability Reporting and Financial Reporting but also Integrated Reporting, Corporate Governance Reporting, Managerial Reporting, etc.). The Special Issue is open to both conceptual studies and empirical analyses based on qualitative as well as quantitative methodological approaches.
Possible topics for contributions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- relationships between sustainability practices and sustainability disclosure;
- impact of sustainability practices on managerial reporting and the managerial decision-making process;
- inclusion of SDG issues into an organization’s management and external reporting;
- sustainability reporting in different kinds of organizations: private, public, third sector, and hybrid perspectives;
- the impact of new media (e.g., company website, social networks) on sustainability disclosure; and
- financial and non-financial stakeholders’ reaction to sustainability-oriented management and disclosure.
Prof. Mara Del Baldo
Prof. Maria Serena Chiucchi
Prof. Paola Demartini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability reporting
- integrated reporting
- sustainable development goals (SDGs)
- corporate reporting
- social and environmental reporting
- non-financial disclosure/reporting
- multidimensional reporting
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