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While the pressure of legitimacy was found to greatly influence companies’ environmental reporting (ER) practices, being environmentally responsible however is not necessarily reflected through positive and descriptive environmental information. Unless companies begin to truly commit to...
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This dissertation examines the relation between reported financial performance and qualitative disclosure in the research and development (R&D) disclosure setting. While the influence of performance on firms? disclosure decisions is a fundamental issue in the accounting literature, prior studies...
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This study reports on an empirical investigation of the characteristics, attitudes, and beliefs of preparers of external financial reports in a less developed country. The basic research instrument consisted of a questionnaire in two parts: the first addressing attitudes of professional...
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estimation of leakage inprojects in developing Asia and Latin America. …
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The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
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This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...
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An analysis of the impact of the political disruption in Iran on the world oil market is presented. During the first quarter of 1979, this disruption caused a loss of approximately 5 million barrels per day (MMBD) of oil production available for export from Iran to the rest of the world. This...
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This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
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We evaluate the conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for managing the rapidly increasing electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved energy using 16 W CFLs is 4 and 6 times less than the long...
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