PROPOSING A STUDY ON GLOBAL WATER SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

Abstract

This paper offers a study on the sustainability reporting which focus on the water used by agricultural company. Using the positivist quantitative empirical paradigm this study intends to explore the extent of water sustainability reports of the global top 500 agriculture companies in several countries by using quantitative empirical study. A large scale dataset will be used for statistical analysis and hypotheses testing based on legitimacy theory tenets which will be employed in this research. Bearing in mind that this paper is a part of upcoming research, thus no result will be presented at this stage.

Keywords: Water sustainability, disclosure, legitimate theory