Climate change: Challenging business, transforming politics

Business and Society

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-30

  Okereke, Chukwumerije ^a   Wittneben, Bettina ^b   Bowen, Frances ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; corporate strategy; politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857668659     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650311427659     Document Type: Article

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