Measuring environmental strategy: Construct development, reliability, and validity

Business and Society

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-115

  Walls, Judith L ^a   Phan, Phillip H ^b   Berrone, Pascual ^c  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

competitive advantage; environmental capabilities; environmental strategy; measurement; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952046156     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650310394427     Document Type: Article

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