Environmental social controls and capital investments: Australian evidence

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 677-695

  Wood, Dorothy ^a   Ross, Donald G ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Environmental social controls

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750187352     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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