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Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility: Linking Goals to Standards

Abstract: 
"Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the core of sustainable development of companies. On one hand, the corporate social responsibility of companies is a prerequisite for sustainable business, on the other - sustainable development sets specific requirements for the development of businesses in the context of increasing requirements to the degree of quality and reliability of financial information. In recent years, sustainable development has become a strategic issue for companies and this trend applies to Bulgarian companies too. Development of non-financial reporting is a very dynamic process, whose peak is the establishment of an integrated system of accountability. Current paper makes analyses of advantages of CSR linking it to the implementation of sustainable development goals through the integrated reporting following the requirements of the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)."
Author: 
Radostina Bakardjieva
Institution: 
Economics Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Year: 
2016
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Region(s): 
Industry Focus: 
Legal & Financial
Country: 
Bulgaria
Datatype(s): 
Policies