Auditing of environmental management systems: Alegitimacy theory perspective

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 411-422

  Taylor, Dennis W ^a   Sulaiman, Maliah ^b   Sheahan, Michael ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c LaSalle Investment Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental audit; Environmental management strategy; International standards; Stakeholders; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986155771     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900110398331     Document Type: Article

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