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The Reality and the Rhetoric : Organisational Sustainability Reporting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frost, Geoff.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia.
- Economic development.
- Sustainable development reporting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The Reality and the Rhetoric examines the gap between the external reporting of four Australian organisations and their internal management practices and systems necessary to support comprehensive and reliable disclosure.
- Contents:
- Intro
- THE REALITY AND THE RHETORIC
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the authors
- Geoff Frost
- Stewart Jones
- Philip Lee
- Overview of the project
- METHODOLOGY
- THE CASE STUDY ORGANISATIONS
- Finance company - Green Insurer
- Manufacturing/pharmaceutical - Herbal Life
- Local government - Local Leader
- Water authority - Clear Water
- Construction/mining - Infrastructor
- OUTLINE OF QUESTIONS FOR RESPONDENTS
- A case study analysis of Green Insurer
- Background of Green Insurer
- Regulatory environment of Green Insurer
- Why Green Insurer was selected for a case study
- Respondents selected for the case study
- Outline of case study
- SECTION ONE
- Public image versus internal perceptions
- SECTION TWO
- Sustainability: data collection, measurement and reporting
- Data integrity
- Is sustainability information actually used for decision-making?
- Combining financial and sustainability reports
- Assurance
- SECTION THREE
- Stakeholder engagement
- SECTION FOUR
- Hurdles facing the collection, integration and reporting of sustainability information
- Corporate culture and resistance
- Sustainability is resource-intensive
- Lack of collaboration/integration
- A case study analysis of Herbal Life
- Background of Herbal Life
- Regulatory environment of Herbal Life
- Why Herbal Life was selected for a case study
- Overview of the case study
- Supplier policy
- Development of sustainability indicators
- A case study analysis of Local Leader
- Background of Local Leader
- Regulatory environment of Local Leader.
- Why Local Leader was selected for a case study
- Sustainability reporting
- Effects of the restructure
- Data collection and measurement constraints
- Lack of staff awareness on sustainability
- Lack of integration of data for decision-making
- Political factors
- Little understanding of what constitutes sustainability
- Lack of organisational support and clout
- A case study analysis of Clear Water
- Background of Clear Water
- Regulatory environment of Clear Water
- Why Clear Water was selected for a case study
- Global Reporting Index
- External stakeholders
- Internal stakeholders
- A case study analysis of Infrastructor
- Background of Infrastructor
- Regulatory environment of Infrastructor
- Why Infrastructor was selected for a case study
- Infrastructor management structure
- Board of directors
- Management team
- Actively reducing carbon footprint
- Energy efficiency initiatives
- Project-wide environmental innovations or 'being carbonconscious'
- SECTION TWO.
- Sustainability: data collection, measurement and reporting
- Summary and conclusions
- External rhetoric: a window to internal processes?
- Formalised processes to cultural change
- Data collection and integration
- External engagement
- Key findings
- APPENDIX 1
- OVERVIEW OF CURRENT EMS
- Development
- Data collection
- Corporate level - external (need to be aware of overlap with site based reporting)
- Corporate level - internal
- Site Level
- Verification/auditing
- Accounting systems
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781743320174
- 1743320175
- 9781743327623
- 1743327625
- OCLC:
- 1251441481
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