Sustainability Assessment: A Pathway to Reducing Audit Fatigue?
(2012) In IIIEE Master Thesis IMEN41 20122The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- Due to concerns from a wide variety of stakeholders social and environmental performance throughout the supply chain has become very important. Global corporations have a plethora of choices of how to structure and communicate their sustainability work in the supply chain. The objective of this research is to investigate how audit and monitoring frameworks attempt to increase transparency, improve social and environmental performance and reduce inefficiencies of audit fatigue. Using two organisations as case studies, Sedex and the GSCP, best practices framework from sustainable supply chain management theory will be used to compare how these organisations operate in relation to how academics suggest sustainability issues in the supply... (More)
- Due to concerns from a wide variety of stakeholders social and environmental performance throughout the supply chain has become very important. Global corporations have a plethora of choices of how to structure and communicate their sustainability work in the supply chain. The objective of this research is to investigate how audit and monitoring frameworks attempt to increase transparency, improve social and environmental performance and reduce inefficiencies of audit fatigue. Using two organisations as case studies, Sedex and the GSCP, best practices framework from sustainable supply chain management theory will be used to compare how these organisations operate in relation to how academics suggest sustainability issues in the supply chain should be addressed. To supplement these findings, interviews were conducted with stakeholders involved in these schemes to gain insight into how effective these organisations are in reality and whether or not they have succeeded improving social and environmental performance, reducing inefficiencies of audit fatigue and if they can achieve transparency in the reporting process. (Less)
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- author
- Mckinnon, Jeffrey LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IMEN41 20122
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainability Assessment, Audit Fatigue, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Corporate Social Responsibility.
- publication/series
- IIIEE Master Thesis
- report number
- 2012:23
- ISSN
- 1401-9191
- language
- English
- id
- 3131245
- date added to LUP
- 2012-10-19 17:02:53
- date last changed
- 2012-10-19 17:02:53
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