Sustainability reporting driving forces and management control systems

Journal of Management Accounting Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 103-124

  Herremans, Irene M ^a   Nazari, Jamal A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

External pressures; Formal control systems; Informal control systems; Institutional logic; Management control systems; Stakeholder relationships; Sustainability reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988417477     PISSN: 10492127     EISSN: 15588033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/jmar-51470     Document Type: Article

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