Value and Limitations of Social Reporting: A few threads

Listed below are a few threads which might help kick-start your research for Bullet Point 5:

Supporting the benefits of social reporting:

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/1801847/how-value-csr-report

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/02/12/finding-value-in-csr-reporting/

http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/12/the-true-value-of-csr-reports/

http://blogs.forbes.com/csr/2010/05/11/what-do-we-make-of-csr-reporting/
(this one might also be good for bullet point number 6)

Finally, an report which focuses on the question at hand directly: whether readers value what is said in a CSR report:

http://www.futerra.co.uk/downloads/Reporting_Change.pdf

Additionally, there is a blog on the Guardian website which runs through a lot of CSR issues (this is the source of the above report).  This can be accessed here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/solitaire-townsend

The author of the blog, Solitaire Townsend, also runs a sustainability communications company.  This might be an interesting place to look when considering the cost of writing a CSR report (e.g. how much would it cost to have such a company produce this report for you?)

http://www.futerra.co.uk/home

Good luck!