sh.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Hållbarhetsredovisningar: att kommunicera utvecklingen och konsekvenserna av sin verksamhet: En kvalitativ studie om sex företag inom den svenska dryckesbranschen
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Business Studies.
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Business Studies.
2023 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Sustainability reports: to communicate the development and consequences of one’s operations : A qualitative study on six companies in the Swedish beverage industry (English)
Abstract [sv]

Sedan flera år tillbaka har det diskuterats hur samt vilket ansvar som företag bör ta inom samhället. Idag är det en självklarhet att företag bör arbeta för hållbarhet samt med Corporate Social Responsibility samtidigt som de måste redovisa sitt arbete enligt lag. Lagen specificerar dock inte hur eller på vilken detaljnivå hållbarhetsarbete ska kommuniceras på ett transparent sätt. I denna studie undersöks hur Corporate Social Responsibility samt hållbarhetsarbete kommuniceras i hållbarhetsredovisningar från sex svenska företag inom dryckesbranschen. Studien har konceptualiserat olika teman genom en innehållsanalys av hållbarhetsredovisningar från Kiviks Musteri, Spendrups, The Absolut Company, Carlsberg Group, Åbro och Kopparbergs Bryggeri som täcker en period om fyra år. Studiens resultat tyder på att hållbarhet kommuniceras på olika sätt av företagen samt att alla företag knyter an globala mål för hållbar utveckling och den svenska årsredovisningslagen till sin verksamhet. Det återfinns även en skillnad gällande detaljnivå och abstraktion i kommunikationen från företagen trots att alla följer samma juridiska redovisningskrav gällande hållbarhet. Anledningen till att företagens hållbarhetskommunikation skiljer sig åt är för att företagen försöker nå en högre grad av legitimitet, arbeta utifrån fler hållbarhetsdimensioner samt inkorporera fler intressentgrupper. Genom en mer detaljerad kommunikation mot flera intressentgrupper anses företagen försöka ta hänsyn till ”själen av lagen” och skapa en högre legitimitetsuppfyllnad istället för att endast följa lagen. 

Abstract [en]

During many years it has been discussed how and which responsibilities businesses should undertake in the society where they operate. Today it is obvious that businesses should work towards sustainability and with Corporate Social Responsibility at the same time as they need to account and present their social and sustainability work in accordance with existing legislations. However, the law does not specify the level of detail at which the sustainability work should be communicated in a transparent way which thus creates a problem. This study examines how Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability work is communicated in the sustainability reports from six Swedish companies in the brewing industry. The study has conceptualized different themes, by using a qualitative content analysis, from the communication in the sustainability reports of Kiviks Musteri, Spendrups, The Absolut Company, Carlsberg Group, Åbro and Kopparbergs Bryggeri during a period of four years. The results from the study implies that sustainability is communicated in different ways by the companies and that all the companies align their operations to global goals for sustainable development and the Swedish annual accounting act. It has also been found that there seems to be a difference in levels of detail and abstraction in the communication from companies even though they all follow and are bound to the Swedish annual accounting act. The reason as why the communication regarding sustainability differs between the companies is explained through the goal of achieving a higher level of legitimacy, working through more sustainability dimensions, and trying to incorporate more stakeholdergroups. Through a more detailed communication towards more stakeholdergroups it is believed that the companies are trying to take “the soul of the law” into consideration, to reach a higher legitimacy fulfillment, instead of only following the law.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. , p. 79
Keywords [en]
Sustainability reporting, Communication, CSR, The Swedish beverage industry, Annual accounting act.
Keywords [sv]
Hållbarhetsredovisning, Kommunikation, CSR, Svenska dryckesbranschen, Årsredovisningslag.
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51736OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-51736DiVA, id: diva2:1770777
Subject / course
Business Studies
Supervisors
Available from: 2023-06-21 Created: 2023-06-19 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(1585 kB)183 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT02.pdfFile size 1585 kBChecksum SHA-512
3c74b23fc9a68112a88ef563d1fc83fda22f54563328fa2fad45ebb1d6f66064f7970e8a41ec515138e2b0ac6e92e13c0f51178eac8e87c34deb7ed0f91b9262
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Andersson Landén, TomOrellana von Essen, André
By organisation
Business Studies
Business Administration

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 186 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 594 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf