A bibliometric review of corporate environmental disclosure literature

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dc.contributor.authorBilal
dc.contributor.authorGerged, Ali Meftah
dc.contributor.authorArslan, Hafiz Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorAbbas, Ali
dc.contributor.authorChen, Songsheng
dc.contributor.authorManzoor, Shahid
dc.date.acceptance2023-03-08
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-25T15:59:28Z
dc.date.available2023-09-25T15:59:28Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-16
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
dc.description.abstractThe study identifies and discusses influential aspects of corporate environmental disclosure (CED) literature, including key streams, themes, authors, keywords, journals, affiliations, and countries. This review also constructs agendas for future CED research. Using a bibliometric review approach, we reviewed 560 articles on CED from 215 journals published between 1982 and 2020. Our insights are three-fold. First, we identified three core streams of CED research: 'legitimization of environmental hazards via environmental disclosures', 'the role of environmental accounting in achieving corporate environmental sustainability', and 'integrating environmental social and governance (ESG) reporting into the GRI guidelines'. Second, we also deployed a thematic map that classifies CED research into four themes: niche themes (e.g., institutional theory and environmental management system), motor themes (e.g., stakeholder engagement), emerging/declining themes (e.g., legitimacy theory), and basic/transversal themes (e.g., voluntary CED, environmental reporting, and corporate social responsibility). Third, we highlighted important CED authors, keywords, journals, articles, affiliations, and countries. This study assists researchers, journal editors, and consultants in the corporate sector to comprehensively understand various dimensions of CED research and practices and suggests potential emerging research areas. Although our paper appears to have been thoroughly conducted, using authors' keywords to identify themes was a key limitation. Thus, we call upon using a more comprehensive data mining technique that uses keywords in abstracts, titles and the whole body of papers and then identifies inclusive trends in CED literature. We contribute to the extant accounting literature by investigating the organizational-level CED, both mandatory and voluntary, using a systematic and bibliometric literature review model to summarize the key research streams, themes, authors, journals, affiliations and countries. By doing so, we construct a future research agenda for CED literature.en
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dc.identifier.citationBilal, Gerged, A. M., Arslan, H., Abbas, A., Chen, S. and Manzoor, S. (2023) A bibliometric review of corporate environmental disclosure Literature. Journal of Accounting Literature,en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1108/jal-01-2022-0006
dc.identifier.issn0737-4607
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/23231
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherEmeralden
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Research in Accountability, Governance and Sustainability (CRAGS)en
dc.subjectBibliometric Analysisen
dc.subjectCSR Reportingen
dc.subjectEnvironmental Disclosuresen
dc.subjectEnvironmental Reportingen
dc.subjectESG Disclosuresen
dc.subjectNon-Financial Reportingen
dc.subjectSustainability Disclosuresen
dc.titleA bibliometric review of corporate environmental disclosure literature
dc.typeArticleen

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