Environmental and social disclosures: Link with corporate financial performance

British Accounting Review

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 102-116

  Qiu, Yan ^a   Shaukat, Amama ^b   Tharyan, Rajesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate financial performance; Corporate social responsibility; Environmental disclosures; Social disclosures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960494576     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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