Environmental motivations: A classification scheme and its impact on environmental strategies and practices

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 453-468

  Paulraj, Antony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Corporate social responsibility; Environmental commitment; Environmental motivations; Green practices; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ETHICS; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; TAXONOMY;

EID: 74549202630     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.612     Document Type: Article

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