The private costs and benefits of environmental self-regulation: Which firms have most to gain?

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 135-155

  Stoeckl, Natalie ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2442707513     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.405     Document Type: Article

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