Factors Influencing Corporate Environmental Disclosures

Accounting Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-73

  Wegener, Matt ^a   Elayan, Fayez A ^b   Felton, Sandra ^b   Li, Jingyu ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon Disclosure Project; Environmental corporate governance; Environmental disclosure; Signatory and institutional investors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874718445     PISSN: 1911382X     EISSN: 19113838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1911-3838.12007     Document Type: Article

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