The impact of financial performance on environmental policy: Does firm life cycle matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 397-413

  Elsayed, Khaled ^a   Paton, David ^b  

^a Main Campus   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Economic performance; Environmental commitment; Environmental strategy; Firm life cycle

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICS; FINANCE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 74549196272     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.608     Document Type: Article

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