Cognitive frames in corporate sustainability: Managerial sensemaking with paradoxical and business case frames

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 463-487

  Hahn, Tobias ^a   Preuss, Lutz ^b   Pinkse, Jonatan ^c   Figge, Frank ^a  

^a KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

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EID: 84907515268     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amr.2012.0341     Document Type: Article

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