Corporate responsibility and sustainable competitive advantage in forest-based industry: Complementary or conflicting goals?

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-123

  Li, N ^a   Toppinen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Corporate responsibility; Forest certification; Forest based industry; Resource based view; Single and double loop organizational learning

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY; DOUBLE-LOOP; FOREST CERTIFICATION; FOREST-BASED INDUSTRIES; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW;

COMPETITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 78651110471     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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