Al-Dosari, Mona, Marques, Ana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1595-0028 and Fairbrass, Jenny
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5292-0720
(2023)
The effect of the EU’s Directive on non-financial disclosures of the oil and gas industry.
Accounting Forum, 47 (2).
pp. 166-197.
ISSN 0155-9982
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Abstract
Owing to its substantial impact on the environment, economy, and society, we choose to examine the oil and gas industry, drawing on neo-institutionalist scholarship to concentrate on the mimetic, coercive, and/or normative effects discernible in the industry’s non-financial disclosure (NFD) behaviour. Focusing on Directive 2014/95/EU, we construct scores to assess the evolution of the sector’s NFD over time and the spillover effects beyond EU large and listed firms, the latter being directly subject to the legislation. We scrutinise NFD over a decade, producing three main results. First, we find that NFD increases immediately after the directive’s publication and further increases during the implementation phase. Second, the directive has a spillover effect, sparking significantly increased NFD among non-EU firms during the implementation period. Third, the NFD level of non-EU firms is associated with the number of EU employees and the extent of EU operations of these firms, but only following the implementation of the directive. These findings have clear repercussions for firms operating both inside and outside the EU as well as implications for EU public policymakers.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | eu,esg,corporate social responsibility,sustainability reporting,accounting,finance ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1402 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Accounting & Quantitative Methods Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2023 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2023 08:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91830 |
DOI: | 10.1080/01559982.2023.2198179 |
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