CSR and environmental responsibility: Motives and pressures to adopt green management practices

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-24

  Babiak, Kathy ^a   Trendafilova, Sylvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Environmental sustainability; Organizational change; Professional sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751691137     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.229     Document Type: Article

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