Green Chemistry Meets Green Business: A Match Long Overdue

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 23-28

  Stoll, Mary Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Green business; Green chemistry; Persistent organic pollutants (POPs); Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDEs); The Stockholm Convention; Toxic chemicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857232366     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1163-8     Document Type: Article

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