Consistency and "awareness gaps" in the environmental behaviour of Hungarian companies

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-329

  Nemcsicsné Zsóka, Ágnes ^a  

^a Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

Author keywords

"Awareness gaps"; Actual behaviour; Corporate environmental awareness; Environmental attitudes; Environmental knowledge; Environmental values; Revealed willingness to act

Indexed keywords

HUNGARY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR; CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; QUESTIONNAIRE-BASED ANALYSIS; REVEALED WILLINGNESS TO ACTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 35648999539     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.07.044     Document Type: Article

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