The changing trends of corporate social and environmental disclosure within the Australian gambling industry

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 783-823

  Loh, Chin Moi ^a   Deegan, Craig ^a   Inglis, Robert ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate social and environmental disclosure; Gambling organisations; Institutional theory; Legitimacy theory; Problem gambling; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940613680     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12075     Document Type: Article

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