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Environmental responsibility is an important element of business sustainability. It is operationalised through environmental accounting and reporting, which have become inevitable management tools in modern business. International reporting frameworks, legislation, and the requirements of stakeholders, necessitate thinking about environmental information which businesses should report. Decisions on reporting environmental information is associated with managerial attitudes and expectations. The lack of research, especially in European countries, on the importance of environmental reporting for a company's management, is the reason for conducting this study. Therefore, the main objective of the research was to investigate managerial attitudes regarding the importance of environmental information for companies stakeholders. A survey was used to collect data. The analysis of the distribution of managers' responses shows that most respondents believe environmental information is part of corporate social responsibility. From the standpoint of the companies it is ethical to collect and report environmental information. Through the factor analysis of managerial attitudes, research indicates variables of the highest importance in the extracted factor: the usefulness of environmental information for different stakeholders, the importance of exploring stakeholders' interests, and the importance of ensuring the quantity and quality of environmental information. The extracted factor, labelled as "the importance of environmental reporting" was further defined as a dependent variable in a simple linear regression model in which industry and size of the company were defined as independent variables. Research identifies only the industry of the company as positively and significantly related to dependent variable.

Purpose – Competitive environment and numerous stakeholders’ pressures are forcing hotels to comply their operations with the principles of sustainable development, especially in the field of environmental responsibility. Therefore, more and more of them incorporate environmental objectives in their business policies and strategies. The fulfilment of the environmental objectives requires the hotel to develop and implement environmentally sustainable business practices, as well as to implement reliable tools to assess environmental impact, of which environmental accounting and reporting are particularly emphasized. The purpose of this paper is to determine the development of hotel environmental accounting practices, based on previous research and literature review. Approach – This paper provides an overview of current research in the field of hotel environmental accounting and reporting, based on established knowledge about hotel environmental responsibility. The research has been done according to the review of articles in academic journals. Conclusions about the requirements for achieving hotel long-term sustainability have been drawn. Findings – Previous studies have shown that environmental accounting and reporting practice in hotel business is weaker when compared to other activities, and that most hotels still insufficiently use the abovementioned instruments of environmental management to reduce their environmental footprint and to improve their relationship with stakeholders. The paper draws conclusions about possible perspectives that environmental accounting has in ensuring hotel sustainability. Originality – The study provides insights into the problem of environmental responsibility of hotels, from the standpoint of environmental accounting and reporting, as tools for assessing hotel impact on the environment and for improving its environmentally sustainable business practice. The ideas for improving hotel environmental efficiency are shaped based on previous findings.

Izvještavanjem o okolišu poslovni sustavi informiranju dionike o svojoj odgovornosti za okoliš, čime osiguravaju transparentnost poslovanja te stvaraju ugled odgovornih poslovnih partnera koji doprinose zaštiti okoliša i kvaliteti života u lokalnoj zajednici. Pretpostavka izvještavanja o okolišu je uspostava sustava zaštite okoliša te ustrojavanje računovodstva okoliša odnosno praćenja i mjerenja elemenata izvještaja o okolišu. Svrha ovog istraživanja je odrediti utjecaj određenih čimbenika na razinu, odnosno stupanj izvještavanja informacija o okolišu kod poslovnih sustava u Hrvatskoj. U skladu s prethodnim istraživanjima, odabrani su ključni čimbenici čiji se potencijalni utjecaj testira na razinu izvještavanja o okolišu kroz pet formiranih hipoteza, uz pomoć regresijskog modela. U hipotezama je kao zavisna varijabla definiran stupanj razvijenosti izvještavanja o okolišu, dok su kao nezavisne varijable, odnosno čimbenici utjecaja na zavisnu varijablu definirani: stupanj razvijenosti upravljanja okolišem, veličina, djelatnost i oblik vlasništva poslovnog sustava te posjedovanje međunarodno priznatog certifikata sustava upravljanja okolišem. Istraživanje je provedeno na uzorku od 164 poslovna sustava različitih djelatnosti. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da 45% poslovnih sustava objavljuje informacije o okolišu. Osim toga, potvrđeno je da je stupanj razvijenosti izvještavanja o okolišu pozitivno te statistički značajno povezan sa stupnjem razvijenosti upravljanja okolišem. S druge strane, nije utvrđena statistički značajna povezanost veličine poslovnog sustava, djelatnosti, oblika vlasništva te posjedovanja certifikata sustava upravljanja okolišem.

Usmjerenost poslovnih subjekata održivom razvoju rezultirala je povećanjem potražnje njihovih dionika za objavljivanjem izvještaja o održivosti. Izvještaje o održivosti smatra se odgovornom poslovnom praksom koja eksternim i internim dionicima osigurava potrebne financijske i nefinancijske informacije. Putem izvještaja o održivosti poslovni subjekti dionicima omogućuju sagledavanje njihove učinkovitosti u rješavanju problema održivosti, a ujedno i lakšu procjenu koristi i izazova s kojima se oni u tom procesu susreću. Suvremeni trendovi podrazumijevaju uključivanje dionika u održivo poslovanje sa svrhom postizanja usuglašenosti ciljeva održivosti. Uključenost dionika u poslovne procese postaje jedan od osnovnih mehanizama odgovornosti, s obzirom da očekuje od poslovnih subjekata angažiranje dionika u utvrđivanje, razumijevanje i rješavanje problema održivosti te izvještavanje o odlukama, poduzetim akcijama i ostvarenim učincima. Uključenost dionika, odnosno razvoj odnosa s dionicima, elementi procesa uključivanja dionika, kao i pristupi uključivanja dionika u proces pripreme informacija o održivosti predmet su ovoga rada. Temeljni je cilj rada, kroz pregled dosadašnjih spoznaja o razvoju, koristima i povezanosti izvještavanja o održivosti i uključenosti dionika te kroz analizu procesa uključivanja dionika, ukazati na potrebu primjene sustavnog pristupa uključivanja dionika te potaknuti raspravu i daljnja istraživanja značaja uključivanja dionika u proces izvještavanja o održivosti.