TY - CHAP
T1 - Measuring companies multicontextual contribution to a sustainable development
AU - Neisig, Margit
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This essay discusses the complexity and paradoxes in tracking, measuring, and establishing a sustainability feedback mechanism relevant not only for companies, but for “business ecosystems” to achieve the UN SDGs based on ESG reporting. This study underlines how measurements and reporting of ESG and the UN SDGs lack a shared semantic reservoir, which makes it more difficult for various decision-makers to make decisions providing for the huge course-correction needed – or with other words: it makes it easier to continue the present way of operation or make a to slow course-correction. The contribution of the research illuminates the inappropriate character of the standardization efforts and what is needed to socially construct the required shared semantic reservoir. Last, but not least, the research illuminates the disappointing news, that the large fiscal recovery investments related to the Covid-recovery, have also not provided the course-correction hoped for.
AB - This essay discusses the complexity and paradoxes in tracking, measuring, and establishing a sustainability feedback mechanism relevant not only for companies, but for “business ecosystems” to achieve the UN SDGs based on ESG reporting. This study underlines how measurements and reporting of ESG and the UN SDGs lack a shared semantic reservoir, which makes it more difficult for various decision-makers to make decisions providing for the huge course-correction needed – or with other words: it makes it easier to continue the present way of operation or make a to slow course-correction. The contribution of the research illuminates the inappropriate character of the standardization efforts and what is needed to socially construct the required shared semantic reservoir. Last, but not least, the research illuminates the disappointing news, that the large fiscal recovery investments related to the Covid-recovery, have also not provided the course-correction hoped for.
UR - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26959-2
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-26959-2_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-26959-2_2
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783031269585
SN - 9783031269615
T3 - Ethical Economy
SP - 9
EP - 19
BT - Measuring Sustainability and CSR
A2 - Kacanski, Slobodan
A2 - Dreyer, Johannes Kabderian
A2 - Sund, Kristian J.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -