Is environmental management an economically sustainable business?

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-82

  Gotschol, Antje ^a   De Giovanni, Pietro ^b   Esposito Vinzi, Vincenzo ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Economic performance; Environmental performance; Green production; Green supply chain management; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY; GREEN PRODUCTION; GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN; GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT IS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN PRODUCTION; GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN; INVESTMENT; REWARD; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 84902094713     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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