Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment: Measurement and Validation

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-445

  Boiral, Olivier ^a   Paillé, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate greening; Eco initiatives; Employee participation; Environmental Management; Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB); Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866290814     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1138-9     Document Type: Article

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