Social and environmental accounting as symbolic and substantive means of legitimation: The case of HIV/AIDS reporting in South Africa
We develop an interpretive framework which combines Suchman's (1995) work on the dynamics of organisational legitimacy and Ashforth and Gibbs' (1990) concepts of symbolic and substantive management to investigate how and why public corporations rely on symbolic and substantive social discl...
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2013-05-05.
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