Working with passion: Emotionology, corporate environmentalism and climate change

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1561-1587

  Wright, Christopher ^a   Nyberg, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

change agency; climate change; corporate environmentalism; emotionology; organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870025210     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712457698     Document Type: Article

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