Impression Management in Sustainability Reports: An Empirical Investigation of the Use of Graphs

By Charles H. Cho, Giovanna Michelon, Dennis M. Patten. 2012

267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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1. Michele Fabrizi
2. C. Mallin
3. Giovanna Michelon

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1. Michele Fabrizi
2. C. Mallin
3. Giovanna Michelon
4. H. Al‐Shaer
5. Elisa Baraibar‐Diez
6. María D. Odriozola

Citations in the corpus

• Accounting for the Unaccountable: Biodiversity Reporting and Impression Management (2014, unknown): “The tendency of more polluting organizations exposed to strong external pressures to increase the disclosure of information on sustainability compared to other organizations seems to confirm the use of sustainability reporting as a tool for symbolic management intended to increase social legitimacy ”
• The Role of CEO’s Personal Incentives in Driving Corporate Social Responsibility (2014, background): “…literature on corporate social and environmental performance (see, e.g., Waddock and Graves 1997; Johnson and Greening 1999; Hillman and Keim 2001) as well as in recent social and environmental accounting research (see, e.g., Cho et al. 2006; Cho and Patten 2007; Cho et al. 2010; Cho et al. 2012).”
• CSR disclosure: the more things change…? (2015, unknown): “Consistent with prior research (e.g., Patten, 2002; Cho et al., 2012), we designate companies from environmentally sensitive industries (ESI) using a one/zero indicator variable, where the extractive, paper, chemicals, petroleum and metals industries are classified as ESI.”