...Ali Uyar; Moataz Elmassri; Cemil Kuzey; Abdullah S. Karaman Purpose Drawing on legitimacy theory, this study aims to investigate whether the benefits of the external assurance process pass beyond the current period and help firms improve corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance...

...Peter Jones; David Hillier; Daphne Comfort Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an exploratory assessment of the employment of assurance in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)/Sustainability reports published by the UK's top ten food retailers. Design/methodology...

...Gilbert Lenssen; Yury Blagov; David Bevan; Jeffrey Ridley; Kenneth D'Silva; Marta Szombathelyi Purpose Despite the increasing recognition that organizations should report on relevant sustainability matters, the importance and value to stakeholders of these reports being independently assured...