Challenges of the "green imperative": A natural resource-based approach to the environmental orientation-business performance relationship

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-438

  Menguc, Bulent ^a   Ozanne, Lucie K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Entrepreneurship; Environmental commitmental; Natural environmental orientation; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244292624     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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