TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Theories of CED in the Literature
..1 Accountability
..2 Decision-usefulness theory
.. Voluntary disclosure theory
..4 Legitimacy theory
..5 Stakeholder theory
.. Economics-based agency theory
2.4 The Driving Forces behind Environmental Disclosure
2.4.1 Corporate characteristics
2.4.1.1 Corporate size
2.4.1.2 Industrial membership
2.4.1.3 Economic performance
2.4.1.4 Environmental performance
2.4.2 General contextual factors
2.4.2.1 Country of origin
2.4.2.2 General So-economic and Political Context
2.4.. Regulation
2.4.2.4 Public concern and media attention
2.4.2.5 Stakeholder groups
2.4.2.6 Effective tax rate
2.4.3 Internal Contextual Factors
2.4.3.1 The Process of reporting
2.4.3.2 Views and attitudes of key corporate players to aspects of reporting
2.5 Corporate Governance and CED
2.5.1 Ownership structure
2.5.1.1 Ownership concentration
2.5.1.2 Governmental ownership
2.5.1.3 Foreign ownership
2.5.2 Board coition
2.5.3 Directors’ characteristics
2.5.4 Other corporate governance characteristics
2.5.4.1 Audit committee and CSR committee
2.5.4.2 Audit quality
25.4.3 Cross-listing
CHAPTER THREE LITERATURE REVIEW ON CED IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Current Situation of Environmental Reporting in China
3.3 Literature Review on CED in China
3.3.1 The extent an qaty of CED in China
3.3.2 The factors influencing CED in China
CHAPTER FOUR THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HYPOTHESES DEVELOPMENT
4.1 Introduction
4.3 Hypotheses Development
4.3.1 Ownership structure
4.3.2 Board coition
4.3.3 Directors’ characteristics
4.3.4 Board activities and other internal processes
CHAPTER FIVE METHODOLOGY
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Philosophical Assutin and Methodological Choices Underpinning the Current Study
5.3 First Empirical Investigation: Model specifications and variables
5.4 Second Empirical Investigation: litative One
CHAPTER SIX UANTITTIE DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Results of the Descriptive Statistics
6.2.1 Corporate characteristics
6.2.2 Corporate environmental disclosure (CED) index
6.3 Results of Inferential Analysis 104
6.3.1 Correlation metrics and bivariate results
6.3.2 Hierarchical multiple regression
6.3.2.1 Results of hierarchical multiple regression
6.3.2.2 Multicollinearity, lineariyndnrmality
CHAPTER SEVEN UALITTIE DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
7.1 Introduction 115
7.2 litative Data Analysis: Results and Discussion
7.2.2 Results and discussion
7.2.2.1 Accountability
7.2.2.2 Regulation
7.2.. Industries
7.2.2.4 Government ownership
7.2.2.5 Economic performance
7.2.2.6 Stakeholder Pressure
7.2.2.7 Impression management
7.2.2.8 Role of the board of directors
7.2.2.9 lity of the environmental information currently disclosed by the sampled Chinese listed companies
7.2.2.10 Decision-making process
7.2.2.11 Cross-listing
7.2.2.12 Peer pressure
CHAPTER EIGHT CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Summary of Motivations and the Research estions of the Study
8.3 Main Findings
8.3.1 ntitative findings
8.3.2 litative findings
8.3.3 Summary of the findings from the two stages of study
8.4 Implications of findings for future CED practice in China
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