“…Firms use a wide variety of communication channels for sustainability reporting, including social reports, thematic reports, codes of conduct, web sites, stakeholder consultations, internal channels, prizes and events, cause-related marketing, product packaging, interventions in the press and on TV, and points of sale (CSR Europe, 2000a, b;Birth et al, 2008;Illia et al, 2010). However, social reports are the main channel for communicating "the social and environmental effect of organizations' economic actions to particular interest groups within society and to society at large" (Gray et al, 1996).…”