sustainability Article Assessing the Benefits of the Sustainability Reporting Practices in the Top Romanian Companies Anca Gabriela Petrescu 1,*, Florentina Raluca Bîlcan 1, Marius Petrescu 1, 2 3 2 Ionica Holban Oncioiu , Mirela Cătălina Türkes, and Sorinel Căpu¸sneanu 1 Faculty of Economic Sciences, Valahia University, 130024 Targoviste, Romania; bilcan.fl
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[email protected]; Tel.: +40-744-322-911 Received: 19 March 2020; Accepted: 21 April 2020; Published: 24 April 2020 Abstract: The concept of sustainability reporting has been addressed by experts worldwide and is defined as the process of communicating the social and environmental effects of the economic actions of organizations to special interest groups within society in general. The main purpose of this research was to identify and analyze the opinions of the real benefits obtained by large companies in Romania following the elaboration of sustainability reports and their contribution to the development of a sustainable economy. A quantitative marketing research was carried out on the sample randomly extracted from a target community of the largest 5750 companies