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While more and more companies see assurance as something
of a magic bullet that lends credibility to disclosures of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, the assurance business is ill-equipped
to meet the growing demand for its services. Is assurance
really worth the effort?
Read the article (PDF), published in the December issue of Ethical Corporation magazine.
Read how integration can help to address the disconnect between sustainability efforts and communications in this “by invitation” article, published in the July/August edition of Ethical Corporation.
This post, from Cam Hoang, Counsel and Assistant Secretary, General Mills, is the sixth in a six-part series based on Where Sustainability Lives, a new study that indicates that organizational structure matters to sustainability performance.
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The study confirmed many of my suspicions about the correlation between organizational structure and external recognition of sustainability performance – I agree with the authors that more work is needed. Beyond the question of where leadership for sustainability resides in an organization, I would be curious about how various departments in the horizontal structure collaborate to make sustainable practices happen.
