Why do manufacturing facilities introduce environmental management systems? Improving and/or signaling performance

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 719-730

  Johnstone, Nick ^a   Labonne, Julien ^b  

^a OECD   (France)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Corporate social responsibility; D82 (asymmetric and private information); Environmental management system; Environmental policy; ISO14001; L15 (information and product quality); M14 (social responsibility); Q50 (environmental economics); Signaling

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

EID: 57049153405     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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