世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

Since the end of the 1990s, sustainability reporting has become an increasingly relevant topic in business and academia. However, literature is still limited in quantity and no major reviews of the latest developments have thus far been presented. This paper provides a review of 178 articles dating from 1999 to 2011 from journals related to business, management, and accounting. Our aim is to identify what determinants of sustainability reporting are examined in the literature and to identify (in)consistencies, gaps, and opportunities for future research. We specifically illuminate factors influencing the adoption, the extent, and the quality of reporting. Based on our findings we provide an otherwise often missing link to theory (especially legitimacy, stakeholder, signaling, and institutional theory). Finally, possible future research themes are discussed by illuminating gaps and underexposed themes in the area of regulation and governance as well as reporting quality and stakeholder perception.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2330264_code1468472.pdf?abstractid=2290524&mirid=4

Determinants of Sustainability Reporting: A Review of Results, Trends, Theory, and Opportunities in an Expanding Field of Research

Historically, management theory has ignored the constraints imposed by the biophysical (natural) environment. Building upon resource-based theory, this article attempts to fill this void by proposing a natural-resource-based view of the firm—a theory of competitive advantage based upon the firm's relationship to the natural environment. It is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development. Propositions are advanced for each of these strategies regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.

A natural resource-based view of the firm

Determinants of sustainability reporting: a review of results, trends, theory, and opportunities in an expanding field of research

This paper investigates the causality among economic growth, renewable energy consumption, capital and labor for new EU member countries for the period of 1990–2009, by using asymmetric causality test approach and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. The empirical results support that renewable energy consumption has positive impacts on economic growth for all investigated countries. But only for Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia there is statistically significant impact on economic growth has found. And also supports neutrality hypothesis for Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia while the conservation hypothesis is present for Czech Republic. The fact that there is a causal relationship from economic growth to renewable energy consumption and the growth hypothesis is supported for Bulgaria, referring to causality from energy consumption to economic growth.

The role of renewable energy consumption in economic growth: Evidence from asymmetric causality

The established European targets should play a leading role in the complex economic process of energy consumption, and the emerging countries have to consider their implications for adjusting the energy policies at national level. This paper develops investigations on the causality relationship between energy consumption and GDP in the context of emerging European countries covering the period 1980–2013. This research covers the limits identified by previous researchers, by detailing the energy consumption by sources and by referring to five emerging countries in Europe. Unlike most of the previous studies it has a double approach: long and short-run bidirectional relationships. A detailed analysis on the impact of economic growth on the energy consumption by country is conducted in order to contribute to the enrichment of the research field. Towards this objective, a three-step analysis is performed: stationarity, cointegration and causality tests are considered. The empirical study shows mixed results. There is a balance in confirming conservation, growth and neutrality hypotheses. In some specific cases results imply that energy consumption and economic growth are jointly determined. However, a comparative analysis for different significance levels draws attention on the differences in judgment of results for this type of studies. Discussions on the results in terms of causality are conducted in order to identify future trends for research.

Energy consumption and GDP causality: A three-step analysis for emerging European countries

The paper aims to revisit the relationship between reporting companies’ characteristics and the importance assigned to social and environmental disclosure, using statistical correlations. We conducted a content analysis on the extent of sustainability reports of the largest 50 companies classified by Global Fortune in 2009, in order to address the research hypotheses. Results show that size characteristics measured by assets and revenues cannot be correlated to the extent of Corporate Social Responsibility reports published by companies, but there is a significant negative correlation between change in revenues and return on equity and social and environmental disclosure for the sampled companies.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/168711/1/aej-v13-i29-p117.pdf

Research on corporate social responsibility reporting

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the externalities in social environmental accounting.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the fundamental research that is related to inductive accounting theory and uses scientific methods for identification of theoretical and practical difficulties of recognizing the externalities in social environmental accounting.Findings – The main finding of the paper is that the information portfolio for the assessment of the externalities will contribute to the accurate estimation of the accounting offer and to the objective judgment of the requested information of this kind within the global performance management. This feat will allow construction of a pertinent informational base concerning the externalities, for integration of the external social costs into the conventional accounting model with a view to smoothly substantiating the socioeconomic and environmental policies.Practical implications – This paper focuses on designing a social arrangem...

The externalities in social environmental accounting

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption research supports the arguments of an increase in the credibility of corporate financial information. We investigate the association betw...

The Impact of IFRS Adoption on Foreign Direct Investments: Insights for Emerging Countries

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is currently working on a project to develop accounting standards suitable for entities that (a) do not have public accountability and (b) publish general purpose financial statements for external users. This article presents the current status of IASB activity on this new direction of financial reporting. Our study has as key objectives to review the extant of academic literature and to analyze, based on the questionnaire conducted by IASB, the impact of a set of new IFRSs for small and medium entities (SMEs) on practitioners and on professional organizations. The literature review unearthed a variety of prior studies on SMEs. Currently, in most jurisdictions SMEs are subject to relaxed regulation as determined at the national level, taking on board specific economic and local conditions. However, the increasing significance of SMEs in the global economy, the burden/inapplicability of full International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the potent arguments in favour of differential reporting have drawn the attention of international regulators and given rise to the proposed new regulatory regimes for SMEs. We briefly present the content of IASB recent SME exposure draft and, as conclusion we comment the answers received at the questionnaire conducted and their influence on the requirements of the new SME reporting standards.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1013520_code490427.pdf?abstractid=1013520&mirid=3

Camelia Iuliana Lungu

Papers

Energy consumption and GDP causality: A three-step analysis for emerging European countries

Research on corporate social responsibility reporting

The externalities in social environmental accounting

The Impact of IFRS Adoption on Foreign Direct Investments: Insights for Emerging Countries

New Directions of Financial Reporting Within Global Accounting Standards for Small and Medium-Sized Entities