This research-in-progress contributes to information systems research by explaining and exploring a new category of information systems application that supports the extremely data-intensive and relatively new phenomenon of corporate sustainability reporting. Such reporting supports the rapidly growing socially responsible investment movement, an extremely important crusade that utilizes market mechanisms to reward good corporate sustainability behavior. Sustainability reporting also supports the cause of corporate transparency in general, supporting other civil society efforts such as the direct exposure of supply chain abuses, and ethical consumption. Information technology has a long history of enabling transparency, of which this phenomenon is a logical extension. We hope this work engages other IS researchers in efforts to understand the current impact and future potential of ICT transparency enablement for the greater good.
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