Differentiated customer pressures and environmental policies in China

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 175-189

  Wu, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

China; Customer pressures; Environmental policy; Stakeholder engagement; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925456665     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1812     Document Type: Article

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