How hot is your bottom line? linking carbon and financial performance

Business and Society

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-265

  Busch, Timo ^a   Hoffmann, Volker H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

carbon management; climate change; corporate financial performance; issue materiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957527968     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650311398780     Document Type: Article

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