Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance - Stakeholder Engagement Evaluation

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 309-325

  Bhattacharyya, Asit ^a   Cummings, Lorne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian companies; Corporate environmental performance; MPI; OPI

Indexed keywords

OPIS;

EID: 84937023429     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1819     Document Type: Article

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