Investing up: FDI and the cross-country diffusion of ISO 14001 management systems

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 723-744

  Prakash, Aseem ^a   Potoski, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 34548080651     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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