Hållbarhetsredovisning enligt GRI - Analys av två företag i byggbranschen
(2013) MVEK02 20131Studies in Environmental Science
- Abstract
- Sustainability reporting is increasingly becoming a common tool for companies and organisations to present their social, economic and environmental performance. This is despite the fact that environmental accounting is not a legal requirement. Why environmental accounting is so frequently applied can be explained through a number of motives and driving-frorces. Stakeholder interests are most commonly the underlying reason for sustainability reports. Furthermore, a comparison of sustainability reports from two of Sweden’s largest construction companies (JM and NCC) has been made in order to examine how sustainablilty accounting works in practice as well as to declare to what extent they are accounting. The guidelines of Global Reporting... (More)
- Sustainability reporting is increasingly becoming a common tool for companies and organisations to present their social, economic and environmental performance. This is despite the fact that environmental accounting is not a legal requirement. Why environmental accounting is so frequently applied can be explained through a number of motives and driving-frorces. Stakeholder interests are most commonly the underlying reason for sustainability reports. Furthermore, a comparison of sustainability reports from two of Sweden’s largest construction companies (JM and NCC) has been made in order to examine how sustainablilty accounting works in practice as well as to declare to what extent they are accounting. The guidelines of Global Reporting Initiative have been the basis to both reports therefore have those guidelines been the foundation of the analysis. The two companies both meet the requirements of Global Reporting Initiative but they could expand their accounting area. (Less)
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- author
- Weck, Jonathan LU
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- organization
- course
- MVEK02 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainability Report, GRI, JM, NCC, Hållbarhetsredovisning
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 3812345
- date added to LUP
- 2013-09-16 11:46:10
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- 2013-09-16 11:46:10
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