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Corporate sustainability
About: Corporate sustainability is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3517 publications have been published within this topic receiving 94075 citations.
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TL;DR: The role of communications in corporate sustainability processes is discussed in this article, where the authors notice that companies engage in communications about sustainability issues for marketing, business, and/or societal reasons, and linkages between recent theoretical approaches to public relations and the concept of corporate sustainability communications are established.
Abstract: Sustainable development, as defined in the Brundtland Report (Brundtland Commission 1987), aims to meet the needs of both current and future generations. On the company level, implementing sustainability should guarantee longterm success and requires not only support of top management, but also networking of several other corporate systems. The aim of this article is to frame the role of communications in corporate sustainability processes. The authors notice that companies engage in communications about sustainability issues for marketing, business, and/or societal reasons. In addition to that, linkages between recent theoretical approaches to public relations and the concept of corporate sustainability communications are being established. Professionalization is recognized as important to secure the evolving field of action for public relations practitioners.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the goals and benefits that are motivating companies to report on their sustainability activities and provide an overview of the historical development of sustainability reporting over recent decades.
Abstract: This chapter introduces the goals and benefits that are motivating companies to report on their sustainability activities and provides an overview of the historical development of sustainability reporting over recent decades. The presentation of challenges in sustainability reporting is followed by a critical appraisal of approaches to overcome these problems. The authors suggest a double-path approach which combines the strategic inside-out approach of performance measurement and management with the outside-in approach of adopting to the external requirements and conclude with consequences for the field of sustainability communication.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present five leading Mexican companies as illustrative examples of sustainable, long-term firms whose strategic plans incorporate three views of sustainability: market-industry, resource-based, and institutional-based.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effects of national culture and corporate governance on corporate social responsibility reporting and the extent to which corporate governance has a moderating effect on the cultural influences on Corporate Social Responsibility reporting.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that only in firms with an explicit linkage between environmental performance and executive contracts is there is any evidence of a significant impact of firm-level environmental performance on CEO compensation levels.
Abstract: Empirical research in the area of corporate sustainability highlights potential conflicts between corporate financial performance and environmental performance. In such a situation, agency theory arguments applied to the corporate environmental context predict that top management compensation should be explicitly linked to environmental performance in order to bring about proper alignment of organizational environmental goals and management incentives. We test this proposition for a sample of 207 Standard & Poor 500 firms in the US in 1996 who explicitly report in Investor Responsibility Research Council (IRRC) surveys the presence or absence of a contractual link between environmental performance and executive compensation. We find that only in firms with an explicit linkage between environmental performance and executive contracts is there is any evidence of a significant impact of firm-level environmental performance on CEO compensation levels. However, even this impact is not very impressive since (a) it holds only for IRRC compliance and spill indices and does not hold for IRRC toxic emission indices, and (b) even the effects for compliance and spill indices do not hold relative to industry levels of these indices. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
129 citations