Sustainability practitioners at first were slow to realise social media's potential to help communicate their efforts but over the last three years they've made up for lost time.
The rankings were based on 22 criteria that measured companies' attempts to assess their carbon footprints, reduce their pollution, support major climate legislation and communicate their efforts to the public.
Rankings were based on 16 criteria and included support of progress on climate legislation as well as their ability to communicate their efforts to reduce emissions to consumers.
"There were inadequate means of identifying a potential patient before they sought medical attention, no efficient way for groups of health workers to coordinate and communicate their efforts, no standardized patient intake form and no central database of cases and contacts".
As the leading asset owners grow in number and communicate their good efforts to beneficiaries, just maybe we are seeing the beginnings of a new era of risk-based capitalism – Mr Abbott, his government and those of the G20 would do well to read the tea leaves before they find themselves marginalised and with a legacy that no-one would want.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gaining importance for international construction contractors and corporate reports are an effective tool in communicating their CSR efforts.
Hospitality managers should reflect on how they are communicating their CSR efforts to potential clients by stressing credibility, transparency, and honesty, and in turn, asking the companies to support their interactive efforts more directly to consumers to increase their trust.
Company executives who wish to communicate their CSR efforts and activities to stakeholders must create a sense of transparency in order to establish positive relationships with consumers (Reynolds and Yuthas 2008).
They have also made unusual efforts to communicate their findings in ways that practitioners would find useful.
Several approaches are demonstrated in the studies described in this issue, where time and funding are specifically dedicated to the task of disseminating and translating findings into politics and individual researchers have taken great efforts to communicate their findings to policy makers (e.g. the Policy Forum, Bird et al. 2016).
