Browsing by Subject "Environmental reporting"

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    A stakeholder-Theory approach to environmental disclosures by small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
    (2008) Husillos, Javier; Álvarez-Gil, María J.
    The aim of this article is to analyse the reasons that drive Spanish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to disclose environmental information. The contribution of the present research to the literature on corporate social reporting is threefold: (i) it widens the scope of Stakeholder Theory; (ii) it analyses the environmental reporting disclosures of SMEs; and, for the first time in this field, (iii) it applies Structural Equation Modelling. The results show that stakeholder salience, manager strategic posture and resource availability, though insufficient in themselves, are necessary to explain the environmental performance of SMEs. Moreover, an analysis of the disclosures they make in their annual accounts brings to light the impossibility of gaining insight into the real environmental behaviour of these firms, which raises reasonable doubts over the effectiveness of the relevant environmental reporting regulation in Spain
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    Algunos Determinantes de la Información Medioambiental Divulgada por las Empresas Españolas Cotizadas
    (2001) Archel Domench, Pablo; Lizarraga Dallo, Fermín
    La creciente atención que los problemas medioambientales suscitan entre un amplio sector de la sociedad, está produciendo una reacción en las empresas tanto por lo que a la adopción de sistemas de gestión medioambiental respecta como en el incremento de información medioambiental comunicada al exterior. A partir de los informes anuales de una muestra de 56 empresas correspondientes al periodo 1995-1998, el presente trabajo investiga algunos factores determinantes de las empresas que divulgan este tipo de información. Para ello, se procede a la estimación de un modelo de regresión lineal de un índice de información medioambiental sobre tres grupos de variables independientes. Los resultados obtenidos, coincidentes con los de la mayoría de estudios llevados a cabo al respecto, señalan que el tamaño, junto con la pertenencia a sectores específicos, resultan las variables más asociadas con el índice, mientras que no aparece relación alguna en el grupo de variables representativas de la evolución financiera de la compañía.
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    Corporate social reporting and assurance : the state of the art
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) García-Sánchez, Isabel-María
    This research reviews the corporate social responsibility disclosure literature based on 330 articles that appeared between 2000 and 2019 in the 36 main journals in the Thomson Reuters InCities Journal Citation Reports categories of Business, Finance (Accounting), Management, Ethics and others related to nvironmental Sciences/Planning and Development. The framework includes predictors of socially responsible disclosure and assurance related to individual, organizational and institutional factors, as well as impacts that we classify as external (i.e., market reactions) or internal (i.e., firm performance). In addition, we establish the moderator and mediator variables with a view to examining whether the relationship between social responsibility reporting/assurance services and its predictors and impacts change. The review reveals important research gaps that allow us to provide suggestions about future research in terms of empirical perspectives
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    Environmental disclosure and Eco-innovation interrelation. The case of Spanish firms
    (2019) Marco Fondevila, Miguel; Moneva, José M.; Scarpellini, Sabina
    The actual drivers of companies’ environmental disclosure have been widely studied and yet with no con-clusive results. Most literature looks for the link between environmental performance and environmentaldisclosure, as reflection of the company instrumental or normative approach to sustainability. However,over the last decade, a growing number of companies are joining the ranks of eco-innovation, focusingtheir strategy on environmental innovation, and paving the way for new approaches to environmental dis-closure.The main objective of this paper is to assess if eco-innovation in companies can be acting as a non-intendeddriver to disclosure of environmental reporting, in connection to the Resources Based View theory, and thesearch for competitive advantage. An extensive research has been undertaken with Spanish eco-innovativecompanies, evaluating their environmental disclosure standards from a two-fold perspective: managers’perception and public available environmental reporting.The findings bring in interesting implications about the mismatch between managers’ perception of theirenvironmental disclosure and accounting standards, and the actual disclosure of environmental reportingmade available to their stakeholders. Within the studied sample, eco-innovation appears to be a driverfor environmental disclosure from an inside-out approach encompassed in the RBV theory, where environ-mental information is primarily meant for managerial purposes and only secondarily to inform stakeholders.