Bibliographie sélective OHADA

For a decade, pressure from stakeholders in the production of sustainable development reports has been unanimous within the scientific community. Moreover, driven by the maximization of added value, the shareholders' position remains pending. This is illustrated by the permanent confrontation between shareholder creation of value (dear to the Anglo-Saxon model) and partnership creation of value (advocated by the continental model). In this movement, the position of Africa has remained unknown within the literature. Thus, if accountability is inherent in the very principle of responsibility, then the problem raised by this article is that of evaluating the societal commitment of African shareholders through the study of the influence of the capital structure on the environmental communication practices of industrial companies in the OHADA area. To this end, a quantitative empirical study isconducted among a sample of 73 companies operating in the Cameroonian industrial sector. The results of ordinal logistic regression tests suggest that four variables of the model: institutional/ethical investors, family shareholding, capital extent and debt significantly influence environmental communication. All this influence is positive for institutional/ethical investors, and negative for family ownership and capital sprawl. As for the debt variable, the meaning of the relationship remains undetermined.