Enhancing ecopreneurship through an environmental management system: A longitudinal analysis of factors leading to proactive employee behaviour

Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-182

  Pichel, Kerstin ^a,b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84872407966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781848441552.00015     Document Type: Chapter

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