Environmental corporate social responsibility of firms in the mining and oil and gas industries: Current status quo of reporting following GRI guidelines

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 53, 2006, Pages 7-25

  Guenther, Edeltraud ^a   Hoppe, Holger ^a   Poser, Claudia ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Corporate social responsibility; Environmental indicators; Environmental reporting; Extractive industry; Global Reporting Initiative; Mining industry; Oil and gas industry; Survey

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GUIDELINE; MINING INDUSTRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVEY;

EID: 38949102956     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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