An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication
The theoretical contribution of this study is the successful testing of legitimacy theory in the context of an emerging economy. This study finds a low extent (13.57%) of social (10.44%) and environmental (17.98%) disclosure (SED) practices of Indian textile and apparel listed firms over 2010-2012....
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Curtin University
2014
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| author | Nurhayati, Ratna |
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| description | The theoretical contribution of this study is the successful testing of legitimacy theory in the context of an emerging economy. This study finds a low extent (13.57%) of social (10.44%) and environmental (17.98%) disclosure (SED) practices of Indian textile and apparel listed firms over 2010-2012. Firm size (+), brand development (+), audit committee independence (+), profitability (+), CEO duality (-) and award obtained (+) are significant predictors of the extent of SED. Economically, firm size and brand development are major determinants. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-8122017-02-20T06:42:16Z An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication Nurhayati, Ratna The theoretical contribution of this study is the successful testing of legitimacy theory in the context of an emerging economy. This study finds a low extent (13.57%) of social (10.44%) and environmental (17.98%) disclosure (SED) practices of Indian textile and apparel listed firms over 2010-2012. Firm size (+), brand development (+), audit committee independence (+), profitability (+), CEO duality (-) and award obtained (+) are significant predictors of the extent of SED. Economically, firm size and brand development are major determinants. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/812 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Nurhayati, Ratna An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title | An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title_full | An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title_fullStr | An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title_short | An empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| title_sort | empirical study of corporate social and environmental communication |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/812 |