Convergence in environmental reporting: Assessing the carbon disclosure project

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 285-305

  Matisoff, Daniel C ^a   Noonan, Douglas S ^a   O'Brien, John J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Corporate sustainability; Environmental reporting; Information disclosure; Transparency; Voluntary environmental programs

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABILITY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EUROPE; JAPAN;

EID: 84880699992     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1741     Document Type: Article

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