Conditions for the success of negotiated agreements: Partnerships for environmental improvement in the Netherlands

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 241-254

  Bressers, Hans ^a   de Bruijn, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Covenants; Environmental policy; Evaluation; Negotiated agreements; Success indicators; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22744440788     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.457     Document Type: Article

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