1st Edition

Redesigning Organizational Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting

By Fabrizio Granà Copyright 2021
134 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the role of accounting and reporting practices, such as corporate and integrated reports, as organizations attempt to represent sustainability. By relying upon the case of a large international oil and gas company and its recent development of integrated reporting, this book argues that the ambiguity of sustainability as a concept, and the impossibility to fully capture it... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Defining sustainability: the evolving debate and initiatives for corporate reporting 3. Representing sustainability within corporate reporting and accounting: criticisms and implications 4. A theoretical frame: discourse within organizations 5. Methodology 6. From sustainability to integrated reporting: a journey of 20 years 7. Conclusions

Biography

Fabrizio Granà is Assistant Professor in management control at ESCP Business School and Visiting Professor in LUISS Guido Carli.