Introduction Critical review of journal articles entails the assessment of the articles’ validity, strengths, and weaknesses. The review facilitates in enlightening the readers through analysing, interpreting, and explaining the article. An effective critique is one that facilitates the reader to make a value judgment of the article. Such a review offers information about the approach the author used in compiling the article as well as the conclusion made. Besides, it brings out the article’s significance with respect to its field and it analyses the article’s strengths and weaknesses using relevant examples. This paper aims at compiling a critical review of a journal article ( A comprehensive comparison of corporate environmental reporting and responsiveness ) by Van Staden and Hooks. Summary The article is motivated by the desire to establish if there is a relationship between organisations that have been perceived as environmentally responsive relative to an autonomous ranking and the degree and quality of their revelations about their environmental effects. In a bid to determine the positive relations between the revelations and environmental responsiveness, the article employs the legitimacy theory. Besides, the article assesses all kinds of environmental reports. The degree and quality of the report is compared with an autonomous evaluation of every organisation’s environmental responsiveness. The article found considerable affirmative correlations between autonomous ranking and rankings based on the quality and degree of revelation. The article suggested that organisations’ revelations reflect their environmental responsiveness and underpins the prospects developed relative to legitimacy theory. Critique The research question for this article is if there is a positive correlation between companies’ environmental responsiveness and environmental disclosure (Staden & Hooks 2007). Currently, the society has become environmental conscious. Many people wish to associate with organisations that are environmental friendly. Besides, different countries have come together to establish environmental laws that organisations ought to abide by in their operations. As organisations seek to attract more customers and operate within the established environmental guidelines, they tend to package their products and services in a manner that appear to be environmental conscious. Moreover, they ensure that they supply the public with information regarding their operations and their environmental conservation strategies. With this respect, this article is very interesting. The article not only tries to evaluate the reasons why organisations make great efforts to report on their environmental policies, but also gives some of the strategies that the organisations apply in reporting their environmental practices. In addition, the article brings out the correlation between the organisations’ environmental responsiveness and their environmental disclosures, a phenomenon that helps the readers to determine if the organisations actually commit to achieving what they report on relative to environmental issues. The outcomes of the article are very critical as they facilitate in determining the level of organisational commitment to environmental co