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Abstract
The important communication channel for an organization to its stakeholders and public at large is sustainability reporting. To increase legitimacy of an organization in the eyes of public and to manage stakeholders’ demands, the sustainability report is designed properly. This research contributes to existing research on organizational facades, organizational hypocrisy, the stakeholder groups and sustainability reports. The research analyses how the decision-making of management of organizations affect the interest of stakeholders and develop different types of facades. The research contributes in understanding the subject, significance and purpose of sustainability disclosures and to discuss the issue of inequivalent talk and action in an organization. The study also helps in understanding how the decisions and actions of organizations are not in line and how the organizations fail to comply with their own policies/disclosures/commitments concerning the treatments of stakeholders. The research further facilitates how and why the organizations deceive their stakeholders and why they deceive public into thinking that stakeholders have no issues with their organizations. The research further contributes the elaboration of different kinds of facades developed by the companies and effects of different facades. The research also explores the main motives behind the erection of facades. It finally highlights the merits or the positive aspects of organizational facades and the demerits of organizational facades in the form of precautions. In order to reach conclusions on this subject a qualitative content analysis has been applied.