Benefits and Obstacles
Respondents indicated some common benefits of reporting CSR
information and some common obstacles to reporting – see Table
2. In general these common benefits indicate that most companies
View CSR reporting as a way to reach wider stakeholder groups
and provide them with information about the company’s stance on
sustainability and their broader performance. It also appears they
view it as progressive, using it to indicate process improvements,
to attract the new generation of employees and seeing it as
an opportunity to drive change.