Institutional distance among country influences and environmental performance standardization in multinational enterprises

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2385-2392

  Aguilera Caracuel, Javier ^a   Fedriani, Eugenio M ^a   Delgado Márquez, Blanca L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Formal and informal institutional distance between countries; FsQCA method; Multiple regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905581888     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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