Beyond compliance: Sustainable business practices and the bottom line

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1126-1139

  Aigner, Dennis J ^a   Hopkins, Jeff ^b   Johansson, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 0347900424     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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