Corporate greening through prosocial extrarole behaviours - A conceptual framework for employee motivation

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 554-570

  Ramus, Catherine A ^a   Killmer, Annette B C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural intent model; Corporate greening; Ecoinitiatives; Expectancy theory; Prosocial and extrarole behaviours

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MODELING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36749084576     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.504     Document Type: Article

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