Ethical Issues in the Assurance of Sustainability Reports: Perspectives from Assurance Providers

The objective of this paper is to investigate, through a qualitative study based on 38 semi-structured interviews with agents who provide assurance of sustainability reports, how they perceive and manage ethical issues underlying the verification of sustainability reports. Most of the ethical issues...

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Authors: Boiral, Olivier (Author) ; Heras-Saizarbitoria, Iñaki (Author) ; Brotherton, Marie-Christine (Author) ; Bernard, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 159, Issue: 4, Pages: 1111-1125
Further subjects:B Sustainability assurance
B Commercialism
B Ethical principles
B Independence of auditors
B Legitimacy
B Sustainability reporting
B conflicts of interest
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