How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

Ecological Economics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-29

  Lanfranchi, Joseph ^a,c   Pekovic, Sanja ^b  

^a Université Panthéon Assas   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental related standards; Pro social motivation; Workers' attitudes and behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894082312     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.12.019     Document Type: Article

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