The road to sustainability: Exploring the process of corporate environmental strategy over time

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 254-271

  Papagiannakis, Giorgos ^a   Voudouris, Irini ^a   Lioukas, Spyros ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Control theory; Corporate sustainability; Environmental attitudes; Environmental strategy; Feedback; Longitudinal case study; Personal values

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; INNOVATION; INVESTMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84902248220     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1781     Document Type: Article

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