Designing a general set of sustainability indicators at the corporate level

What is it about?

I recently published a study entitled "Designing A general Set of Sustainability Indicators at the Corporate Level" in the Journal of Cleaner Production. In this study, one of the most topsy-turvy issues in the sustainability rating literature that is the problem with the lack of convergence among CSR and sustainability indicators is addressed and a solution, with the development of a robust systemic model, has been proposed.

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Why is it important?

The proliferation of ratings offers investors and other stakeholders a rich pool of sustainability information and performance assessment. But this has also come at a cost. Users of ratings—particularly capital markets, but also consumers, employees, communities and others—are hard pressed to discern which ratings merit their attention and meet their decision-making needs.Therefore, standardization, comparability and consistency are urgently required (Visser, 2015). The study is a response to this call although great efforts have also been put forth by the rating agencies and organizations like GISR. The quantitative testing of the approach in practice has also been conducted and is under the review process in a highly credible journal.