Industry Specific Sustainability Benchmarks: An ECSF Pilot Bridging Corporate Sustainability with Social Responsible Investments

This paper investigates the state of the art with respect to sustainability reporting, its linkages with the corporations, internal measurement and monitoring systems and their combined impact on the quality of contemporary sustainability benchmarks, developed by SRI analysts and so-called rating an...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 2004-12, Vol.55 (2), p.187-203
Main Authors: van den Brink, Timo W. M., van der Woerd, Frans
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Benchmarks
Business ethics
Business operations
Business organization
Business risks
Business structures
Business studies
Corporate responsibility
Ecological sustainability
Ethics
Financial reporting
Green businesses
Investment advisors
Journalism
Management information systems
Measurement
Organization theory
Organizational culture
Quality standards
Reporting standards
Social responsibility
Stakeholders
Studies
Sustainability
Sustainability assessments
Sustainability reporting
Sustainable development
Sustainable management
Sustainable materials
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Social responsibility
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