Organizational responses to environmental demands: Opening the black box

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1027-1055

  Delmas, Magali A ^a   Toffel, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental strategy; Institutional theory; ISO 14001; Stakeholder influence; Structural equation modeling; Voluntary environmental programs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; ISO 14001; STAKEHOLDER INFLUENCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS;

MANAGERS;

EID: 53149151819     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.701     Document Type: Review

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