Corporate engagement in processes for planetary sustainability: Understanding corporate capacity in the non-renewable resource extractive sector, Australia

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 538-553

  Harris, Neil ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate capacity; Engagement; Internal factors; Planetary sustainability

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 36748999964     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.497     Document Type: Article

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