Bringing the environment into bank lending: Implication for environmental reporting

British Accounting Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-218

  Thompson, Paul ^a   Cowton, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; Corporate lending; Corporate social reporting; Environmental accounting; Environmental reporting; Social accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942532132     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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