Mind the Gap! Strategically Driving GRI Reporting Towards Sustainability
2012 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year))
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Sustainability reporting is a vital tool to communicate an organisation’s sustainability performance to stakeholders. Sustainability reporting also allows an organisation to communicate its vision, goals and strategic plans. In order to be strategic towards sustainability, an organisation should have a vision of where it wants to go, and assess where it is today, so as to take the right initiatives towards its vision. This thesis focuses on how GRI sustainability reporting and strategic planning towards sustainability can be combined in an integrated process to help organisations move towards sustainability. The Integrated Process allows an organisation to gain a better understanding of its sustainability context; design resilient strategies in light of that context using a backcasting from Sustainability Principles approach; and report its sustainability performance and progress in bridging the gap towards sustainability, transparently to internal and external stakeholders.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. , p. 104
Keywords [en]
Sustainability reporting, strategic sustainable development, GRI, strategic planning, systems thinking, Sustainability Principles, backcasting, sustainability context, transparency.
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-2438Local ID: oai:bth.se:arkivexB9C6ECA3D1E9222EC1257A14004C7A3EOAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-2438DiVA, id: diva2:829715
Educational program
SLASL (Master programme in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
Note
Edwin Janssen +31626078987 Rutger Verkouw +31624155241 Selene Kfoury +551138138481
2015-04-222012-06-052018-01-11Bibliographically approved