Environmental Innovations and Internationalization: Theory and Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 790-801

  Chiarvesio, Maria ^a   De Marchi, Valentina ^b   Maria, Eleonora Di ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

emerging economies; export; green innovation; green supply chains; internationalization

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXPORT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INNOVATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 84897350635     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1846     Document Type: Article

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