Motivations for corporate sustainability management: Contrasting survey results and implementation

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 272-285

  Windolph, Sarah Elena ^a   Harms, Dorli ^a   Schaltegger, Stefan ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability management; Functional area; Improvement; Legitimacy; Market success; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925959005     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1337     Document Type: Article

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