Can socially responsible investment for cleaner production improve the financial performance of Spanish pension plans?

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 466-477

  Martí Ballester, Carmen Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cleaner production; Financial performance; Multi index models; Panel data; Pension plans; Socially responsible business strategies

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVESTMENTS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BUSINESS STRATEGY; CLEANER PRODUCTION; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-INDEX; PANEL DATA;

PENSION PLANS;

EID: 84938204706     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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