Corporate governance and environmental performance and disclosures

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-232

  Cong, Yu ^a   Freedman, Martin ^b  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Environmental accounting; Pollution measures; Risk screening environmental indicators (RSEI); Toxics release inventory (TRI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155162396     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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