Digitally unified reporting: how XBRL-based real-time transparency helps in combining integrated sustainability reporting and performance control

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-77

  Seele, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital age; Sustainability performance measurement; Sustainability reporting; Transparency; XBRL

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; TRANSPARENCY;

DIGITAL AGE; EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS; FINANCIAL REPORTING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE; SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; XBRL;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84959214132     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.01.102     Document Type: Article

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