Meeting the environmental challenge: A case of win-win or lose-win? A study of the UK baking and refrigeration industries

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 172-186

  Drake, Frances ^a   Purvis, Martin ^a   Hunt, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2442718683     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.401     Document Type: Article

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