Environmental disclosures and compulsory accounting standards: The case of Spanish annual reports

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-63

  Llena, Fernando ^a   Moneva, Jose M ^a   Hernandez, Blanca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental accounting; Environmental reporting; Legitimacy theory

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; STANDARD (REGULATION);

EID: 33846315787     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.466     Document Type: Article

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