Environmental behaviour in Chicago automotive repair micro-enterprises (MEPs)

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-207

  Mir, Debby F ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Auto; Awareness; Behaviour; Business; Car; Enterprise; Environmental; Micro ; Repair

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; AUTOMOBILE; COMPLIANCE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; MICROENTERPRISE; REPAIR;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41949085718     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.517     Document Type: Article

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