Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability Reporting Among the Fortune Global 250: Greenwashing or Green Supply Chain?

John Kennedy Lewis ()
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John Kennedy Lewis: Salve Regina University

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics - Vol. 1, 2016, pp 347-362 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sustainability reporting efforts of MNCs who are members of the Fortune Global 250 (FG250) was investigated. The focus was on sustainability reporting by MNCs of supply chain impacts. The reporting of FG250 MNCs was examined to determine if greenwashing was occurring or whether MNCs had committed to operating a green supply chain. A mixed methodology was used consisting of quantitative analysis of 25 MNC CSR/sustainability reports which were randomly selected from the FG250 listing. Qualitative analysis using content analysis was also conducted on the reports. Both methodologies concentrated on the sustainability reporting of the selected MNCs in regard to their supply chain. Findings were mixed as there were great variations among the MNCs in their level of sustainability reporting about their supply chains. Some MNCs did not report on the activities of their supply chain at all (20 %), the majority of the MNCs reported on their supply chain impacts at the value and goal level (48 %), while the rest reported at the management approach level (32 %). A majority of the sampled MNCs could be accused of greenwashing due to the lack of detailed quantitative information provided by the MNCs on the environmental impacts of their supply chain.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; Sustainability; Greenwashing; Green supply chain; Sustainability reporting; Environmental impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27570-3_27

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