Davor Labaš

Status Quo and Future Development of Sustainability Reporting in Central and Eastern Europe

Reporting on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has broadened widely within the last decade. A great deal of research on sustainability reporting (SR) has focused on American and Western Europe companies. Only fragmentary studies exist that compare reporting patterns of CEE countries. There is substantial room for investigating how and to what extend companies in CEE disclose sustainability information.This study examined the reporting behaviour of the 50 largest companies in nine CEE countries and two WE countries in order to investigate the practice and divergence of sustainability reporting in CEE countries.

Sustainability Reporting in Central and Eastern European Companies: Results of an International and Empirical Study

Reporting on corporate social, environmental and economic responsibility has broadened widely within the last decade. The European Union is the most active region in the world in terms of sustainability reporting, largely on a voluntary basis. Most of the empirical research related to sustainability reporting in Europe has been conducted in Western European countries. In Central and Eastern Europe, only a small number of studies have focused on sustainability reporting. Little, however, is known whether how and why companies in CEE report about their corporate sustainable activities. The aim of the research project is to describe the status quo of SR in CEE, to explain some noteworthy differences between the two subsamples CEE and WE and to predict the future development of SR in the CEE region. To address this research issue, we have established a research consortium with researchers from ten Central and Eastern European Countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Two Western European countries, Germany and Austria, have been added to the sample to enable a regional comparison.

Sustainability Reporting in Croatia: The Challenges of Sustainable Business

Sustainability reporting is increasingly becoming an integral part of business reports. It encompasses reporting on environmental-, social-, and employee-related matters, as well as reporting on human rights, anti-corruption, and bribery issues. Implementing the stated principles requires knowledge and poses a challenge for managers.

The Impact of Turkish TV Series on Turkey’s Image: Evidence from Eastern Europe

Tourism has been one of the fasting growing sectors in Turkey. Turkey is the 6th most popular tourist destination in the world, attracting around 40 million tourists in 2014. The popularity of Turkish television series has skyrocketed in the last decade not only in Turkey but also in many countries especially in Middle Eastern and southern European countries. Turkish TV series serve not only as an export item. TV series also boost the tourism. Moreover, Turkish TV series is an aspect of soft power of Turkey. Therefore, Turkish TV series have various effects in social, economic, tourism, and political aspects. We examine the impact of Turkish TV series in terms of perception, tourism and product preferences in four Eastern European Countries namely Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Serbia. For this purpose, survey is conducted by GFK company to 200 (100 male/100 female) university students and 300 (150 male/150 female) non-students in each capital city of those countries. According to survey findings, majority of respondents know at a Turkish TV series. Followers of Turkish TV series has more (less) positive (negative) thoughts about Turkey compared to non-followers. Also, Turkish TV series increases the publicity of Turkey in those countries. While we find a positive effect on tourism destination choice while there is no effect of Turkish TV series on Turkish product purchase behavior.