This appendix describes the methodology used to gather and
include articles in the database for further analysis and also
details the method used to assess the practices viewed in the
environmental reports. Content analysis was used for both the
literature and the corporate reports. Content analysis is a semistructured
methodology for extracting insight from qualitative
data (Krippendorff, 2007). Table A1 indicates techniques used to
ensure reliability and validity of the content analysis.
Reproducible coding instrument
Instructions clearly defined the phenomena of interest
The recording units were defined and described in analyzable terms with categories that were relevant to the research project
Procedures were clearly communicated and validated in an iterative process