Past, Present, or Future? Managers’ Temporal Orientations and Corporate Climate Action in the Swedish Electricity Sector

Organization and Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 242-262

  Sarasini, Steven ^a   Jacob, Merle ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

climate change; electricity; temporal orientations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY MARKET; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84910595425     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026614544964     Document Type: Article

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