Outcomes of Environmental Management Systems: the Role of Motivations and Firms’ Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 545-559

  Heras Saizarbitoria, Iñaki ^a   Arana, German ^a   Boiral, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

EMAS; environmental management; environmental management systems; ISO 14001; Spain

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER;

SPAIN;

EID: 84923582553     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1884     Document Type: Article

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