Corporate sustainability and economic performance: An empirical analysis of a voluntary environmental program in the USA

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 534-546

  Moon, Seong Gin ^a   Bae, Suho ^b   Jeong, Moon Gi ^b  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corporate economic performance; Corporate sustainability; Green Lights voluntary program

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919862283     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1800     Document Type: Article

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