Mitigating climate change - How do corporate strategies differ?

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-89

  Weinhofer, Georg ^a   Hoffmann, Volker H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Content analysis; Corporate strategy; Electricity industry

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; EMISSION CONTROL; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 77953580243     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.618     Document Type: Article

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