The environmental responsibility of business is to increase its profits (by creating value within the bounds of private property rights)

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 161-204

  Desrochers, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ETHICS; PROFITABILITY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77952786850     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp046     Document Type: Article

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