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Communication of CSR Information

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Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

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Communication of sustainability information; Disclosure of CSR information; Sustainability reporting

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Communication of CSR information emerges from the evolution of the transparency concept at the peak of social responsibility in business management. Traditional financial information for shareholders and investors becomes insufficient to reflect the value of companies and support the decision-making process of a wide range of stakeholders with a growing social awareness. Therefore, the need to create new value metrics arises to cover nonfinancial aspects from an economic, social, and environmental perspective.

Different tools provide information on the sustainable performance of companies. However, sustainability reports are consolidated as the main tool to communicate CSR. Although the implementation of these documents in information systems has been applied on the basis of voluntarism, the newly acquired importance of nonfinancial information encourages regulators...

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  1. Department of Finance and Accounting, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Natalia Vaz-Ogando

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

    Arto O. Salonen

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Vaz-Ogando, N. (2020). Communication of CSR Information. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_447-1

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