Do facilities with distant headquarters pollute more? How civic engagement conditions the environmental performance of absentee managed plants

Social Forces

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 189-214

  Grant, Don ^a   Jones, Andrew W ^b   Trautner, Mary Nell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 8344245352     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2004.0111     Document Type: Article

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