Corporate Sustainability Reporting Towards Sustainability Network

Abstract

Corporate sustainability reporting is an essential part of corporate communication, which focuses on the environmental impact of business acting. The changed perceptions of the triple bottom line – economical, environmental, and social aspects – accompanied by new technologies, such as eXtensible Business Reporting Language, offer the potential to automate the processing of corporate sustainability reports. In addition by using frameworks, such as enterprise information portals, allows a personalized exchange of information between companies and stakeholders. The approach presented in this paper will show how a sustainability network can be structured and how corporate sustainability reporting will provide an added value for such a network.