Much ado about nothing? how banks respond to climate change

Business and Society

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-88

  Furrer, Bettina ^a   Hamprecht, Jens ^b   Hoffmann, Volker H ^b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate strategy; decoupling; service sector; strategic change; substantive action; symbolic action

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857666095     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650311427428     Document Type: Article

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