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The "trilemma" of non-financial reporting and its pitfalls

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  • Pierre Baret

    (Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School, CEREGE [Poitiers, La Rochelle] - Centre de recherche en gestion [EA 1722] - IAE Poitiers - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Poitiers - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - ULR - La Rochelle Université)

  • Vincent Helfrich

    (Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School, IRIST - Institut de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les sciences et la technologie - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg)

Abstract

This research aims to show that the non-financial reporting tool collides with nexus of constraints which we will qualify as a “trilemma”: (1) the constraint linked to the complexity, the irreducibility and the scalability of corporate social responsibility (2) the constraint linked to inherent stakes of non-financial reporting (3) the constraint linked to company expectations. The inscription of the tool within the nexus of constraints can be more or less effective, depending on how the points of convergence or friction are managed between the different constraints. In this way, three categories of possible pitfalls appear. Idealistic reporting, lay reporting or technical reporting. To conclude we discuss the possibility that Integrated Reporting can be an “optimal” solution between these pitfalls and the limits of this possibility.
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  • Pierre Baret & Vincent Helfrich, 2019. "The "trilemma" of non-financial reporting and its pitfalls," Post-Print hal-02270164, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02270164
    DOI: 10.1007/s10997-018-9430-z
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