Description
Gray (2010) stressed, ‘most business reporting on sustainability and much business representative activity around sustainability actually have little, if anything to do with sustainability… Indeed these accounts might most easily be interpreted as how organisations would like to understand sustainability and how, in turn, it would convenience them if the body politic would accede to such a view. In doing so, business is in the process of constructing the dominant discourse around sustainability but in a way which – at best – ignores discourse in both the development literature and the development community as well as the growing body of scientific consensus’ (p48).
Required:
Within the context of the sustainability report of an organisation of your choice, you are required to critically discuss Gray’s (2010) statement. Your essay should draw upon relevant academic literature and discuss a theoretical framework that could be used to support your argument.
Your essay should conclude by discussing the extent to which you agree with Gray’s (2010) statement.