Quality Of Information Produced By Producers: Greenwashing Or Can We really Trust?

Fifth International Conference Of Consumer Citizenship, Tallinn, Estonya, 5 - 06 Mayıs 2008, ss.74-84

Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
Basıldığı Şehir: Tallinn
Basıldığı Ülke: Estonya
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.74-84
İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Quality Of Information Produced By Producers : Green Washing Or We Can Really Trust ?

Globalization has helped to shift some of the responsibility for protecting citizenship rights away from governments to corporations. Corporations enter the arena of citizenship in circumstances where traditional governmental actors fail to be the counterpart of citizenship. Globalization has also substantially reshaped notion of citizenship. Since corporations have tended to partly take over or sometimes are expected to take over certain functions with regard to the protection, facilitation, and enabling of citizens' rights--formerly an expectation placed solely on governments, consumers as well as citizens have needed and assessed information about impacts of corporations in society. Providing information in modern society has become significant. The triple bottom line (TBL) is a term coined and advocated by John Elkington. His view of the TBL is that it represents the idea that business does not have just one single goal- namely adding economic value- but that it has an extended goal set which necessitates adding environmental and social value too. Many companies around the world report information on their economic, environmental and social policies, practices and performance. But this information is generally incomplete, inconsistent and unverified. Measurement and reporting practices vary widely according to industry, location and regulatory requirements. Different terms have been applied and used by corporations. Social accounting however have been playing a significant role for increased accountability and transparency. This paper will try to explain the term of social accounting as the generic term which summarizes the other tools and approaches on providing information for organizations. Because of high costs, inadequate information systems, lack of standards, secrecy and unwillingness to disclose sensitive or confidential data, most corporations do not practice any form of social accounting. This paper however will try to research some standards of quality in social accounting by finding out some examples.