The present study examines how legitimacy is created in consultants’ translation of the Integrated Reporting (IR) framework in a Swedish context. The aim was to understand which logics from the sociology of worth (SOW) the consultants’ translation of the IR framework will build on in making it a legitimate practice in a Swedish context. The study employed three aspects presented by Patriotta et al. (2011), where actors provide justifications in order to attain legitimacy, to describe the translation process. Boltanski and Thévenot’s SOW was applied to discern what logics that were present and compromised upon in the translation process to make the IR framework a legitimate practice in a Swedish context.  The present study mainly found the logics of fame, industrial and market, but other logics was also found in the process of making a legitimate translation of the IR framework by the consultants. Thus resulting in a broad compromise of logics, generating potentially vague and ambiguous statements of sustainability. If integrated reporting is the future for corporate reporting, then these dominating logics in the translation of the IR framework might set the tone for the sustainability reporting that will be spread by consultants in a Swedish context.

Syfte: Syftet är att studera statligt ägda företags inställning till integrerad redovisning och <IR> ramverket som publicerades i december 2013. Vidare är syftet att undersöka vad företagen tror ligger till grund för behovet av ett nytt sätt att redovisa, samt få en insikt i hur statligt ägda företag ser på en framtid för integrerad redovisning. Metod: En kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för att besvara studiens syfte. Empiri: Empirin har samlats in via sju intervjuer med respondenter från statligt ägda företag. De företag som medverkat är PostNord, Samhall, Green Cargo, TeliaSonera, Svensk exportkredit, Swedfund och Almi. Slutsats: De statligt ägda företag som deltagit i studien har en övergripande positiv inställning till integrerad redovisning och till <IR> ramverket. Företagen uppger att det funnits ett behov av att redovisa och förmedla en mer rättvisande bild av organisationen som helhet. Resultatet av studien visar vidare att <IR> ramverket innebär en del utmaningar och möjligheter samt att företagen tror på en framtid för integrerad redovisning. / Purpose: The aim is to study state-owned company's attitude to integrated reporting and the <IR> framework that was published in December 2013. Additional the purpose is to examine what the companies think is the basis for the need for a new way to report and gain an understanding how stateowned companies are thinking about the future for integrated reporting. Methods: A qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews were used to answer the purpose of the study. Empirics: The empirical data were collected through interviews with seven respondents from stateowned companies. The participated companies are PostNord, Samhall, Green Cargo, TeliaSonera, Swedish Export Credit, Swedfund and Almi. Conclusions: The state-owned companies that have participated in the study have an overall positive attitude towards integrated reporting and to the <IR> framework. The companies states that there has been a need to present and convey a more accurate picture of organizations as a whole. The results of the study show that the <IR> framework implies some challenges and opportunities and that the companies believe in a future for integrated reporting.