Determinants of environmental investments: Testing the structural model

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 265-277

  Murovec, Nika ^a   Erker, Renata Slabe ^a   Prodan, Igor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Centre of Excellence Cobik   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Environmental investments; Policy measures; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; LARGE DATABASE; POLICY MEASURES; SECOND ORDERS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRY; MODEL STRUCTURES;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84865451906     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.07.024     Document Type: Article

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