Who can act on sustainability issues? Corporate capital and the configuration of organizational fields

Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 193-215

  Howard Grenville, Jennifer A ^a   Hoffman, Andrew J ^b   Bhattacharya, C B ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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