Cost and revenue impacts of corporate responsibility: Comparisons across sustainability dimensions and product chain stages

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-67

  Lankoski, Leena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Corporate responsibility; Economic performance; Economic responsibility; Product chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949093570     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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