A Review of Dutch Corporate Sustainable Development Reports

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 321-339

  Asif, Muhammad ^a   Searcy, Cory ^b   Santos, Paulo dos ^c   Kensah, David ^c  

^a PRINCE SULTAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Corporate sustainable development; Global Reporting Initiative; Supply chain management; Sustainability reports; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887824192     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1284     Document Type: Article

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