The heuristic-systemic model of sustainability stewardship: Facilitating sustainability values, beliefs and practices with corporate social responsibility drives and eco-labels/indices

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 249-260

  Kim, Haejung ^a,b   Lee, Stacy H ^a,b   Yang, Kiseol ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Eco label index; Heuristic systematic model; Sustainability stewardship; VBN Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926994030     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijcs.12173     Document Type: Article

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