Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)

Analysis of Social and Environmental Information Reported by American SMEs

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Zhen Su
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Zhen Su
Available Online May 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.145How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Corporate sustainability reports, SMEs, Inferential statistics.
Abstract

This paper reports on in-depth empirical study into SMEs in America. It is found, based on descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, that the level of sustainable information reporting of American SMEs is improving, corporate from high-profile industry tend to disclose more sustainable information, and sustainable reports prepared in GRI-form might increase reports’ credibility. However, due to the bias of Clarkson et al Scale and the size of sample, a correlation between type of industry, form of reports and the quality of reports cannot be proved.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
May 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-533-7
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.145How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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