Exploring the link between sustainability reporting and sustainability management: a conceptual framework.

Sustainability managementand Sustainability Reporting (SR) practices have dramatically increased during the last two decades, raising important questions about the relationship between internal practices and external communication. Previous literature on SR has almost exclusively highlighted the role of institutional and stakeholder pressures in driving its adoption. However, as surveys among reporters also identify internal benefits of SR, its full role for company-level sustainability management remains unclear. In order to address this question, we develop a framework accounting for four SR configurations, stemming from different levels of relative importance of external and internal motives for SR. A multiple case study involving four large Spanish companies serves to illustrate the framework and to identify company-level factors that act both as enablers and barriers of SR internal relevance. We conclude that motivations for SR, along with such internal factors, decisively influence its contribution to sustainability management.

Portland & Rochester Railroad, New England, 1860 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map showing the Portland & Rochester railroad and its connections, prepared by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. It was published in 1860. Scale [ca. 1:900,000]. Covers Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of New York, Maine, and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as railraods, principal and proposed railroad connections, drainage, state, county, and town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of distances and inset: [Northeastern United States]. Scale [ca. 1:7,600,000].This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Lima Township (Mich.) residences

Left to right: Oak Lawn Farm Res. of Thos. S. Sears, Sec. 6, Lima Tp. Mich.; Res. of Elias Westfall, Sec. 9, Lima Tp. Mich.; Res. of Thomas Jewett, Sec 20, Lima Tp., Mich.; Res. of Richard Goodwin, sec. 9, Lima Tp. Mich.; Res. of Geo. H. Mitchell, Sec 28, Lima Tp., Mich.; Res. of Sampson Parker, Sec 24, Lima Tp. Mich. Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Everts & Stewart, 1874.

Evaluation of the usability and benefits of twist wire GMAW and FACW narrow gap welding /

"March 1988."

Weston-Waterville, Havre-Waterville and Waterville-Canso cables repair expeditions for the Commercial Cable Coy. : 1901-1903 : C.S.S. "Buccaneer".

On cover: no. 6.

USCG group control and communications system study /

Final report; January 1979.

The Pacific railroads : the rights of the people ignored.

"March 31, 1874"--Page 8.

Memorial of the committee of nine of the first mortgage bondholders of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co., New York, Jan. 11, 1878.

At head of title: To the Honorable Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior.

Report of Messrs. Benj. Wright and J. L. Sullivan, engineers, engaged in the survey of the route of the proposed canal,

Pages [57]-70 contain: "An act to incorporate the president, managers and company, of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.

The collected works of William Morris; with introductions by his daughter May Morris ...

One of one thousand and fifty numbered copies.

Weston F. Milliken et al., vs. the Portland & Ogdensburg R.R. Co. et als. /

Brief in hearing on petition before Judge Walton for issue of $50,000 additional certificates of receiver.

Annual report of the directors of the Eastern Rail Road at their annual meeting ...

Imprint varies.

Report from the Select committee on Post office (Telephone agreement), 1905; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. Ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed, 31 July 1905.

Postmaster general and National telephone company. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of commons, dated 14 February 1905;--for, copy of memorandum ... setting forth an agreement, dated 2nd February 1905, between the postmaster general and the National telephone company, limited": [v. 1] p. xiii-[xxxviii]