Corporate Sustainability Bridging the Gap Between Sustainability Reporting and Business Operations

dc.contributor.advisorTaylor, Laura
dc.contributor.authorAdamson, Brenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-15T18:58:55Z
dc.date.available2015-09-15T18:58:55Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis research project has set out to determine how best a corporation can bridge the gap between sustainability reporting and operations and establish the overarching characteristics a corporation can implement in order to promote sustainability within their operations. In order to achieve this goal, I looked at two categorically different corporations: companies that have been proactive to sustainability and companies who have been reactive, those being corporations who have developed sustainability strategies in response to market pressures. Through a sustainabilitycomparative analysis, determining which category achieves sustainability goals more often and more successfully and a deeper analysis through interviews and further research to determine how corporations within each category promote sustainability initiatives within their organiza- tion differently, I was able to establish overarching sustainability characteristics. I determined corporations deemed proactive outperformed those deemed reactive when it comes to successful- ly achieving sustainability goals and that sustainability strategies are promoted differently name- ly through the integration of the sustainability departments into the corporate structure and im- plementation of sustainability initiatives into employee mandates. Ultimately I established a set of overarching characteristics that can be employed in order to promote sustainability and bridge the gap between sustainability reporting and operations: those being CEO buy-in, quantifiability, disclosure and integrative reporting.en_US
dc.identifierMESMP00045
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30197
dc.language.isoen
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dc.titleCorporate Sustainability Bridging the Gap Between Sustainability Reporting and Business Operations
dc.typeMajor paper

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