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Strategic Responses of Public Sector Entities to GRI Sustainability Reports

Strategic Responses of Public Sector Entities to GRI Sustainability Reports
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Author(s): Maria da Conceição da Costa Tavares (University of Aveiro, Portugal)and Lúcia Lima Rodrigues (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 30
Source title: Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Jonas da Silva Oliveira (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal), Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques (University of Aveiro, Portugal)and Augusta da Conceição Santos Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3731-1.ch008

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Abstract

The almost absence of sustainability reports in Portugal prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines in public sector (PS) entities led to the study of the strategic responses to institutional pressures, as suggested by Oliver (1991), in the few entities that publish such reports. The objective of this chapter is to determine the institutional factors that motivated sustainability disclosure in GRI reports. An interpretative approach through open questionnaire was used to analyze the strategic responses to the institutional pressures and expectations provided by PS entities. The results show that not all the institutional factors that lead Portuguese PS entities to disclose their social responsibility are in the acquiescence line, accommodating other strategic responses. Thus, this acquiescence is verified when the consistency with organizational goals is high and when the constraints and the multiplicity of stakeholders are low.

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