Input, output, and environmental management productivity: Effects on firm performance

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 145-158

  Lannelongue, Gustavo ^a   Gonzalez Benito, Javier ^a   Gonzalez Benito, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental management productivity; Environmental performance; Financial performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925444973     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1806     Document Type: Article

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