Environmental and Social Policy and Earning Persistence

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 159-172

  Mahjoub, Lassaad Ben ^a   Khamoussi, Halioui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIZWA   (Oman)

Author keywords

Annual report, French companies; Content analysis; Earning persistence; Environmental and social disclosure

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL POLICY; STOCK MARKET; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874191334     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1739     Document Type: Article

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