A language perspective to environmental management and corporate responsibility

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-253

  Joutsenvirta, Maria ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Business NGO relationship; Corporate legitimacy; Corporate responsibility; Cultural studies; Discourse analysis; Language studies

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LANGUAGE; POVERTY;

EID: 68249142772     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.574     Document Type: Article

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