Business, environmental reform and technological innovation in Hong Kong

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 223-234

  Hills, Peter ^a   Lam, Jacqueline ^a   Welford, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 3242876067     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.408     Document Type: Article

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