Beyond corporate environmental management to a consideration of nature in visionary small enterprise

Business and Society

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 512-547

  Kearins, Kate ^a   Collins, Eva ^b   Tregidga, Helen ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Business; Business nature relationship; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955244292     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650310368988     Document Type: Article

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