Corporate environmental disclosures on the annual reports of italian listed companies from 1997 to 2001 an empirical research

The research intends to investigate on what kind of environmental information Italian companies report, examining the environmental disclosures published by the companies quoted in the Italian Stock exchange, over the period 1997 to 2001. The research has the purpose to find out the eventual evolution of the environmental reporting in the considered years, with the intention to describe how the companies observed have changed their approach to the environmental reporting.