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“For an integrated management of sustainability issues, environmental, social, financial, and risk performance indicators should be combined into an overall performance measurement system [26,28,31].”
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“Several publications deal with the incorporation of sustainability into specific aspects of business [31], but they consider a single measure as a technocratic illusion, no matter how sophisticated it might be [26].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schaltegger, S., & Burritt, R. L.
- Affiliations
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg (DE)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Schaltegger, Stefan
- Venue
- Journal of World Business
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 375-384
- ISSN
- 1090-9516 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2110528664
- Cited by
- 519
- References
- 93
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 37 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 26
- FWCI
- 41.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of World Business (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
- Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Accounting and Financial Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Accounting Theory and Financial Reporting
- Keywords
- sustainability accounting, corporate sustainability, information management, corporate reporting
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