Since the first Earth Day in the 1970s, corporate environmental performance has increased dramatically, and cases of green-washing have increased sharply. The term green-wash refers to a variety of different misleading communications that aim to form overly positive beliefs among stakeholders...

Through the lens of legitimacy theory and starting from Habermas’s communication theory the paper aims to extend and contribute to the research fields related to the quality of social and environmental disclosure and corporate legitimacy by focusing on firms’ environmental reporting...

In recent decades, corporate communication has undergone significant changes in terms of channel, content and receivers. To be accountable, companies are called upon to satisfy a plurality of stakeholders who are increasingly interested in non-financial information. In addition, the type and...