Financial outcomes of environmental risk and opportunity for US companies

Sustainable Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-212

  Semenova, Natalia ^a   Hassel, Lars G ^a,b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental performance and preparedness; Environmental risk and opportunity; Panel data analysis; Return on assets; Tobin's Q

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; PANEL DATA; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 47849132390     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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