A Matter of Time: The Temporal Perspectives of Organizational Responses to Climate Change

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1537-1563

  Slawinski, Natalie ^a   Bansal, Pratima ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

case studies; climate change; corporate environmentalism; organizational time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869408396     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612463319     Document Type: Article

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