Inside-Out and Outside-In: Twins between Sustainability Strategy, Performance Management, Reporting and Stakeholder Involvement

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Despite the current trends to encourage companies to create a sustainability report, the strategic and performance management behind such reports is often unclear. Utilizing several conceptual perspectives, inside-out, outside-in and twin-track, this development paper investigates how companies can integrate corporate activities, functions and stakeholders not only to produce a sustainability report, but to integrate sustainability issues in the strategic management and performance measurement as well. This conceptual paper develops a framework that can be used to assess companies’ documents, including sustainability reports, materiality assessments, stakeholder engagement, etc., on their approach to sustainability activities. Initial findings reveal that strategy, stakeholder management, performance measurement and reporting are often created in separate departments, seldom coordinating these business functions to reorganize a company’s sustainability activities. This indicates that more explicit integration of different approaches is needed, and it raises a question for future research how such an integration could actually be achieved.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBAM2015 Conference Proceedings : The Value of Pluralism in Advancing Management Research, Education and Practice
Number of pages8
PublisherBritish Academy of Management
Publication date09.2015
ISBN (Print)978-0-9549608-8-9
Publication statusPublished - 09.2015
EventBritish Academy of Management Annual Conference - BAM 2015: The Value of Pluralism in Advancing Management Research, Education and Practice - Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Duration: 08.09.201510.09.2015
https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=2886

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