Environmental Protection in Environmentally Reactive Firms: Lessons from Corporate Argentina

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 361-379

  Liston Heyes, Catherine ^a   Vazquez Brust, Diego Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argentina; Environmental attitude; Environmental behaviour; Environmental management systems; Environmental reactivism; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912557409     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2473-4     Document Type: Article

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