Is environmental management accounting a discipline? A bibliometric literature review

Meditari Accountancy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-31

  Schaltegger, Stefan ^a   Gibassier, Delphine ^b   Zvezdov, Dimitar ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Accounting; Bibliometric analysis; Development; Discipline; Environmental management; Environmental management accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896259604     PISSN: 2049372X     EISSN: 20493738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MEDAR-12-2012-0039     Document Type: Article

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