The quality of stakeholder engagement in sustainability reporting: Empirical evidence and critical points

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-122

  Manetti, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Global Reporting Initiative; Materiality; Stakeholder engagement; Stakeholder theory; Sustainability reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953312072     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.255     Document Type: Article

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