
Social and Environmental Reporting
A critical discourse analysis
Colin Higgins(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 7. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-3-8433-5990-0 (ISBN)
Description
Recently business organisations have enthusiastically embraced social and environmental reporting, but questions are starting to emerge about the effects this type of reporting has on organisational or social change. In this book, Dr Colin Higgins examines language and textual strategies that suggest business organisations can use social/environmental reporting to shape broader social understandings about the responsible or sustainable corporation. The insights show new ways in which business organisations resist fundamental social change. Importantly, the book argues that stakeholder groups, equipped with new awareness of language use, can construct new ways to target unsustainable business practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8433-5990-0 (9783843359900)
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Person
Dr Colin Higgins is a lecturer in the School of Management and Information Systems at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an associate of the university's Institute for Sustainability and Innovation. He has published widely in the areas of social/environmental reporting, corporate responsibility and sustainability.