Reexamining the expected effect of available resources and firm size on firm environmental orientation: An empirical study of UK firms

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-308

  Elsayed, Khaled ^a  

^a Main Campus   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Available resources; Environmental orientation; Environmental performance; Environmental responsiveness; Firm size; Logistic regression; Nested models; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744952309     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-6402-z     Document Type: Article

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