Open AccessThe historical development of sustainability reporting: a periodic approach
Author(s) -
Soner Gökten,
Yıldız Özerhan,
Pınar Okan Gökten
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zeszyty teoretyczne rachunkowości
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-677X
pISSN - 1641-4381
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.2466
Subject(s) - standardization , sustainability , period (music) , sustainability reporting , institutionalisation , integrated reporting , accounting , process (computing) , political science , business , computer science , law , ecology , physics , acoustics , biology , operating system
History is the main backbone of understanding the reasons behind developments, and sustainability re-porting is one of the most important developments in accounting. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to provide a chronology of the historical development of sustainability reporting. The historical re-search method with a periodic approach was applied. This paper divides the development history of sustainability reporting into three main periods: the pre-standardization period, between 1962 and 1998, the standardization (institutionalization) period, between 1999 and 2016, and the post-standardization period, which started after 2016. In addition, based on events, three sub-periods are defined for the pre-standardization period. This paper is one of the rare studies in the literature that identifies the chronologi-cal process of sustainability reporting’s historical development.