This study establishes a baseline evaluation of sustainability reporting (SR) and integrated reporting (IR) practices among groups of companies globally using a combined evaluation matrix. We evaluate a sample of high performance companies (HPC), global reporting initiative (GRI) companies,...

Purpose Prior research shows that companies that achieve high performance excel at certain financial objectives. This chapter addresses the question: Do companies that excel at these financial performance objectives also excel in integrated reporting and sustainability reporting?...

Purpose The present study investigates whether companies that exhibit high performance characteristics in the pre-financial crisis period can maintain their high performance in the financial crisis period of 2007–2009 and, in particular, the post-financial crisis period of 2010–2011....

1. Towards Integrated Reporting: concepts, elements and principles -- 2. What is sustainability? A review of the concept and its applications -- 3. Annual reports, Sustainability reports and Integrated reports: trends in cor-porate disclosure -- 4. The connectivity of information for the...