Purpose –This paper aims to study the informational dynamics that take place between a firm and its stakeholders with respect to corporate environmental management. Design/methodology/approach –The analysis is based on a case study contrasting environmental information reported by the case...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the informational dynamics that take place between a firm and its stakeholders with respect to corporate environmental management. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on a case study contrasting environmental information reported by the case...

Purpose: This paper investigates how organisations are responding to mandatory modern slavery disclosure legislation. Experimentalist governance suggests that organisations faced with disclosure requirements such as those contained in the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 will compete with one...

Purpose: Mobilizing a theoretical framework combining institutional logics and “imprinting” lenses, this paper provides an in-depth contextualized analysis of how historical imprints affect social and environmental reporting (SER) practices in Romania, a post-communist country in Eastern...

Purpose: This paper summarizes the emergency measures taken by Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and discusses the key political, economic, and social factors that influenced the design of these measures. Design/methodology/approach: This paper collects the announcement of emergency...

Purpose: This paper highlights the emergency budgetary measures taken by the French government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis and identifies some of the key political, economic, social and environmental factors and consequences associated with those measures....

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of investor sentiment on managers’ decisions to provide CSR disclosures. The core issue focuses on whether, why and how managers adjust their approach to CSR disclosure to cater to the investor sentiment. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether different levels of assurance statements of environmental disclosures affect investment choices in the French context where environmental assurance was voluntary until 2012 and became regulated and mandatory since then....