Determinants of environmental disclosure in the annual reports of large companies operating in Portugal

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 185-204

  Monteiro, Sónia Maria da Silva ^a   Aibar Guzmán, Beatriz ^b  

^a Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Corporate social responsibility; Empirical analysis; Environmental accounting; Environmental reporting; Portuguese annual reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955359489     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.197     Document Type: Article

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