From Australia's The Age to Brazil's Jornal de Commercio to China's INFZM, the world's media have been reporting the results of the Accountability Rating.
The findings of the 2007 global Accountability Rating of the world's largest companies were first released by Fortune magazine on 1 November 2007.
Since then, they have been reported by print and online media outlets worldwide.
Oil giant BP is the world’s most accountable company according to this year’s Accountability Rating™ 2007.
The Rating also finds that European companies are forging ahead, with 18 global companies headquartered in Europe featured in the top 20.
The Accountability Rating is the only independent initiative to measure how the world’s biggest companies build responsible practices into the way they do business.
Produced by international think-tank AccountAbility and CSR consultancy csrnetwork, the Rating, now in its fourth year, rigorously assesses the information Fortune Global 100 (G100) companies put into the public domain, as well as data on their actual social and environmental performance. Companies are rated on four domains: strategy, governance, engagement and impact. The results are published in Fortune magazine.
The Accountability Rating™ of the world's 100 largest companies has been widened this year to reflect companies' actual social and environmental performance as well as their strategy and processes.
The Accountability Rating, devised by csrnetwork and AccountAbility and published annually in Fortune magazine, ranks the Fortune Global 100 companies, examining how successfully they integrate responsible business practices into core activities.
2007 also sees the launch of national rankings for Turkey and Greece in addition to those already published for Russia, South Africa and Hungary.
The results of the Accountability Rating 2007 will be published in the November 12th edition of Fortune and on this website.
