Assessing quality assessment of corporate social reporting: UK perspectives

Accounting Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-79

  Hammond, Kim ^a   Miles, Samantha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Award schemes; Benchmarking; Corporate social reporting; Quality assessment; Scoring protocols

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744509378     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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