Enhancing the Quality of Information in Inter-Organizational Environmental Reporting Information Systems

Environmental reporting has become standard within big and medium-sized international companies. However, organizations face many knowledge management challenges in environmental reporting, such as data availability, comparability, flexibility, and high costs. Some of these challenges can be mitigated by inter-organizational environmental reporting information systems (IO-ERIS). Nevertheless, the information quality remains a challenge. This research aims at identifying the state of the art in environmental reporting, extracting the requirements for information quality in environmental reporting, and proposes an approach of how the quality of environmental information in IO-ERIS can be enhanced following the design science research cycle.