Sustainability Reporting in Central and Eastern European Companies: Results of an International and Empirical Study

Péter Horváth, Judith M. Pütter (), Toomas Haldma, Kertu Lääts, Dzineta Dimante, Lina Dagilienė, Cezary Kochalski, Piotr Ratajczak, Jaroslav Wagner, Petr Petera, Renata Paksǐová, Tamás Tirnitz, Voicu-Ion Sucală, Adriana Sava, Adriana Rejc Buhovac, Nidžara Osmanagić Bedenik and Davor Labaš
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Péter Horváth: IPRI gGmbH
Judith M. Pütter: IPRI gGmbH
Kertu Lääts: University of Tartu
Dzineta Dimante: University of Latvia
Lina Dagilienė: Kaunas University of Technology
Cezary Kochalski: Poznan University of Economics and Business
Piotr Ratajczak: Poznan University of Economics and Business
Renata Paksǐová: University of Economics in Bratislava
Tamás Tirnitz: Corvinus University
Voicu-Ion Sucală: University of Exeter
Adriana Sava: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Adriana Rejc Buhovac: University of Ljubljana
Nidžara Osmanagić Bedenik: University of Zagreb
Davor Labaš: University of Zagreb

A chapter in Sustainability Reporting in Central and Eastern European Companies, 2017, pp 11-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Reporting on corporate social, environmental and economic responsibility has broadened widely within the last decade. The European Union is the most active region in the world in terms of sustainability reporting, largely on a voluntary basis. Most of the empirical research related to sustainability reporting in Europe has been conducted in Western European countries. In Central and Eastern Europe, only a small number of studies have focused on sustainability reporting. Little, however, is known whether how and why companies in CEE report about their corporate sustainable activities. The aim of the research project is to describe the status quo of SR in CEE, to explain some noteworthy differences between the two subsamples CEE and WE and to predict the future development of SR in the CEE region. To address this research issue, we have established a research consortium with researchers from ten Central and Eastern European Countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Two Western European countries, Germany and Austria, have been added to the sample to enable a regional comparison.

Keywords: Global Reporting Initiative; Corporate Sustainability; Sustainability Report; Global Compact; Sustainability Information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52578-5_2

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