Corporate greening as amoralization

Organization Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 673-696

  Crane, Andrew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Corporate greening; Impression management; Issue selling; Morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039009692     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840600214001     Document Type: Article

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