A multi-case investigation of environmental legitimation in annual reports

Advances in Environmental Accounting and Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 45-81

  Savage, Arline ^a   Cataldo, a J ^a   Rowlands, Jeff ^a  

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