A flexible approach for web-based, personalised sustainability reporting

Abstract

Sustainability reporting is a form of corporate reporting that aims to give a comprehensive overview of a company’s performance, aimed at all stakeholders. While this provides various benefits like central information access, comparability etc, there are also disadvantages involved. This is due to the fact, that the techniques used for sustainability reporting still do not reflect the possibilities of web based communication systems. Using these potentials, a company can provide a target oriented, flexible reporting that provides tailored reports for the informational needs of every related stakeholder. In this paper, the current situation is analysed and a software system is presented that utilises web based systems to allow a flexible, efficient and stakeholder oriented sustainability reporting.