Corporate reports on sustainability and sustainable development: 'We have arrived'

Sustainable Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-51

  Ihlen, Øyvind ^a   Roper, Juliet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Communication; Corporate environmentalism; Corporate reports; Sustainability; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894230775     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.524     Document Type: Article

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