Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies

This paper basically examined the utilization of the Internet for communicating corporate environmental information by listed financial and non-financial companies in Nigeria. The sample for the study consists of 30 firms listed on the Nigerian stock exchange. While the content analysis technique wa...

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Main Author: Uwalomwa UWUIGBE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Inforec Association 2012-01-01
Series:Informatică economică
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Online Access:http://www.revistaie.ase.ro/content/63/03%20-%20Uwuigbe.pdf
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description This paper basically examined the utilization of the Internet for communicating corporate environmental information by listed financial and non-financial companies in Nigeria. The sample for the study consists of 30 firms listed on the Nigerian stock exchange. While the content analysis technique was used as a basis for eliciting data from the corporate websites of the selected firms, the student t-test statistics was used to find out whether there is a significant difference in the level of web-based corporate environmental disclosure between financial and non-financial firms in Nigeria. In addition, the linear regression method of data analysis was employed to investigate whether there is a relationship between the financial performance of firms and the level of corporate environmental disclosures of the selected listed firms in Nigeria. The paper as part of its findings observed that there is no significant difference in the level of web-based corporate environmental disclosure between listed financial and non-financial firms in the Nigeria stock exchange
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Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
Informatică economică
Environmental Disclosures
Corporate Websites
Content Analysis
Listed Companies
Internet
Nigeria
title Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
title_full Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
title_fullStr Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
title_full_unstemmed Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
title_short Web-Based Corporate Environmental Reporting in Nigeria: A Study of Listed Companies
title_sort web based corporate environmental reporting in nigeria a study of listed companies
topic Environmental Disclosures
Corporate Websites
Content Analysis
Listed Companies
Internet
Nigeria
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