Stakeholder Engagement, Corporate Social Responsibility and Integrated Reporting: An Exploratory Study

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 286-304

  Sierra García, Laura ^a   Zorio Grima, Ana ^b   García Benau, María A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assurance; Auditors; Corporate social responsibility; GRI; Integrated reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942293211     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1345     Document Type: Article

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