Firms and sustainability: Mapping the intellectual origins and structure of the corporate sustainability field

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 382-391

  Linnenluecke, Martina K ^a   Griffiths, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Business; Climate change; Corporate social performance; Corporate social responsibility; Corporate sustainability; Greening; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GENEALOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84872604077     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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