Environmental sustainability versus profit maximization: Overcoming systemic constraints on implementing normatively preferable alternatives

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-162

  Alexander, John ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ideal environmental sustainability; Normative; Primary filtering value; Profit maximization; Systemic; Veil of ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448967478     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9264-5     Document Type: Article

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