State-level institutional pressure, firms' organizational attributes, and corporate voluntary environmental behavior

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1189-1204

  Moon, Seong Gin ^a   Bae, Suho ^b  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Energy star for buildings program; Neoinstitutional theory; Organizational attributes; State institutional pressures

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EID: 80053321545     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2010.546828     Document Type: Article

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