Enacting ecological sustainability in the MNC: A test of an adapted value-belief-norm framework

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-305

  Andersson, Lynne ^a   Shivarajan, Sridevi ^a   Blau, Gary ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological ethics; Multinational corporation; Supervisory support; Sustainability; Value belief norm theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044453148     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-005-3440-x     Document Type: Review

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