National institutional antecedents to corporate environmental performance

Journal of World Business

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 729-741

  Hartmann, Julia ^a   Uhlenbruck, Klaus ^a,b  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate environmental performance; Multilevel modeling; Sustainability; Varieties of Capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941730910     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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