Corporate social and environmental responsibility in web-based reports: Currency in the banking sector?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 865-881

  Coupland, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748416374     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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