Sustainability Reporting Topic Maps: An Approach to Support Stakeholder Inclusiveness

This article propose a method of how to produce and conceive an Internet-based sustainability report. After the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) created the inalterable representation of the third output of GRI-guidelines companies begin to create sustainability reports and publish it via the world wide web. But thinking about that these reports are divided into different environmental messages a typical interested person will be confronted with too much information. Typi-cally this results in an unperceptive view of all environmental task which are related to each other. Using the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) we suggest a method of how to alter sustainability reports into Topic Maps (XTM). 1