Corporate Sustainable Development: Testing a New Scale Based on the Mainland Chinese Context

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 519-533

  Chow, Wing S ^a   Chen, Yang ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainable development; Instrument refinement; Scale development; Second order analysis; Theory development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856222365     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0983-x     Document Type: Article

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