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Can Global Reporting Initiative reports reveal companies’ green supply chain management practices? by Marcio Cardoso Machado; Victor Silva Correa; Maciel Manoel de Queiroz; Getúlio Camelo Costa is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Companies usually use Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reports as a typical way to make their sustainability commitment transparent to stakeholders, without being concerned with making green supply chain management (GSCM) practices transparent. Given that the generic approach of the GRI framework makes it difficult to identify where and how GSCM practices are presented, this paper assumes that these GSCM practices are in the company's GRI reporting but are not transparent. Consequently, how GRI reports can reveal companies' GSCM practices remains underexplored in the literature. Guided by a qualitative approach, this study exploited data from the GRI reports of 30 Brazilian companies to verify the degree of GSCM transparency. Specifically, we use a theoretical structured framework for GSCM practices, consisting of four dimensions and 20 practices distributed among them. Our findings show that the current way of reporting actions to enhance companies' contribution to sustainable development can partially promote GSCM transparency. The findings also indicate which practices could be better documented in GRI reports to increase the visibility of GSCM actions, providing insights for m

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Author

Marcio Cardoso Machado; Victor Silva Correa; Maciel Manoel de Queiroz; Getúlio Camelo Costa

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)