Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management: Evidence from Asian Economies

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-112

  Scholtens, Bert ^a   Kang, Feng Ching ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asian firms; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Earnings management; Investor protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874194081     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1286     Document Type: Article

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