Public Environmental Accountability: From Information to Action

Environmental Disclosure Practices and Financial Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 103-124

  Rothenberg, Sandra ^a   Stanley, Marcus ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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