Environmental Management Under Subnational Institutional Constraints

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 631-648

  Ding, Shujun ^a   Jia, Chunxin ^b   Wu, Zhenyu ^c   Yuan, Wenlong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Foreign ownership; Institutional constraints; Private firms; Subnational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908530091     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2388-0     Document Type: Article

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