Corporate Environmental Reporting

7 Unravelling the Discourse

Introduction

The previous two chapters established how corporate environmental reporting implicitly draws from western environmental philosophies by communicating the relationship between the corporation and the natural world discursively. This chapter moves from reporting the findings of the research, to providing an in-depth analysis of what these findings mean. First, it outlines the major findings of the research, highlighting the ways in which the philosophical themes have been woven into the corporate environmental reports analysed in this book. These findings are then linked to the prior research, demonstrating how the thesis of this book grows from, and extends the existing literature. Next, alternative ...