...Charika Channuntapipat; Anna Samsonova-Taddei; Stuart Turley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand sustainability assurance (SA), and diversity in that practice, by examining assurance providers’ understandings of the practice and the influences that those understandings have...

.... The observations therefore provide important insights that may be used by regulators, industries and companies to develop a universal CSR assurance framework that may be consistently applied by CSR assurance providers around the world. The conventional measure of corporate success is financial...