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Does Sustainability Reporting Improve Corporate Behaviour?: Wrong Question? Right Time?
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Does sustainability reporting improve corporate behaviour?: Wrong question? Right time?
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University of St Andrews Published online: 28 Feb 2012.

To cite this article: Rob Gray (2006) Does sustainability reporting improve corporate behaviour?: Wrong question? Right time?, Accounting and Business Research, 36:sup1, 65-88, DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2006.9730048 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2006.9730048

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