Is Business Performance Related to the Adoption of Quality and Environmental-Related Standards?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 525-548

  Grolleau, Gilles ^a   Mzoughi, Naoufel ^b   Pekovic, Sanja ^c  

^a Lameta and University of Montpellier 1   (France)

^b INRA Ecodeveloppement   (France)

^c Universite Paris Dauphine   (France)

Author keywords

Business performance; Environmental related standards; Quality standards

Indexed keywords

PROFITABILITY;

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING; QUALITY STANDARD;

COMMERCE;

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; SYNERGISM;

FRANCE;

EID: 84875431166     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9604-0     Document Type: Article

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