Strategic corporate environmental management within the South African automotive industry: Motivations, benefits, hurdles

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 310-323

  Kehbila, Anderson Gwanyebit ^a   Ertel, Jürgen ^a   Brent, Alan Colin ^b  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Environmental management systems (EMSs); ISO 14001; Original equipment manufacturers; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); South Africa; Survey questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450190673     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.188     Document Type: Article

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