Corporate Governance and the Environment: What Type of Governance Creates Greener Companies?

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 492-514

  Kock, Carl J ^a   Santaló, Juan ^a   Diestre, Luis ^a  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Corporate environmental performance; Corporate governance; Environmental stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859492242     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00993.x     Document Type: Article

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