Determinants of Traditional Sustainability Reporting Versus Integrated Reporting. An Institutionalist Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 299-316

  Jensen, Julia Catharina ^a   Berg, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Institutional theory; Integrated reporting; Sustainability reporting

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; FUTURE PROSPECT; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MARKET CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84863774416     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.740     Document Type: Article

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