Accounting Research Project And Methodology

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Research Methodology..........................................................................................................................2
Ethical Consideration............................................................................................................................2
Theoretical Framework..........................................................................................................................2
Literature Review..................................................................................................................................3
Sustainability Reporting....................................................................................................................3
Company’s Performance and Reporting of Sustainability.................................................................4
State of Sustainability Reporting in ASX Listed Entities..................................................................4
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
Reference...............................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
In the today’s world of economy, the model of traditional business is of no longer use. The
demographical, technological and globalization changes have resulted into changing in behavior,
structures and processes of internal organization. On global market, social, governance and
environmental issues are extremely becoming powerful for gaining the competitive advantages. The
companies are increasingly pressurized by the various stakeholders for focusing on the sustainability
and for being accountable for the various approach of bottom line of the operations encompassing
environmental, social, governance and ethical practices (Wolf 2014). The emergence of sustainability
concept indicates vital shift in the perspective of enterprise, prompting the companies for
reconsidering their own way of doing the business with the help of integrating initiatives of
sustainability. The sustainable entity is one, which considers perspective of long-run on impact of its
business operations and aligning its strategies of business for attaining holistic development that lead
towards better performances of firm (Montabon, Pagell and Wu 2016). Hence, this research paper will
give valuable insights on the how sustainability affects the performance of company.
Research Methodology
Research methodologies is consists of adopting specific techniques in research process for
evaluation, assembling and collection of data. It is the techniques and tools, which are used to gather
relevant set of information in specific research study. The sources of data used in this study is
secondary data sources. Secondary data source is the research method that uses already existing set of
data. Moreover, the research method used in this study is deductive research. Further, for the finding
the link between sustainability issues and firm’s performance, different report issued by the
companies such as annual and sustainability report of the ASX listed companies are analyzed and
interpreted. The period considered for analysis of these report are from year 2014-2019. In addition to
this, this paper has reviewed different books, journal articles and other relevant sources.
Ethical Consideration
The specification of ethical consideration is key part in research study. During, research of
this paper, the effort has been made for not harming participants in any ways. Moreover, priority is
given on respect for the research participant’s dignity. Before study, consent of the involved
participants has been obtained. Lastly, the confidentiality of information that is provided by
participants has been involved.
Theoretical Framework
The major theories considered in this research study includes legitimacy, stakeholders’ and
agency theory. These theories is based on the fact that organizations are required to be sustainable and
they needs to incorporate sustainability in their core strategic goals (Yadav, Han and Rho 2016).