Multinational Corporations and Emissions Trading:. Strategic Responses to New Institutional Constraints

European Management Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 441-452

  Pinkse, Jonatan ^a   Kolk, Ans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Emissions trading; Institutions; International policy; Multinationals

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649013667     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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