Green Innovation and Performance: The View of Organizational Capability and Social Reciprocity

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 309-324

  Huang, Jing Wen ^a   Li, Yong Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Green innovation; Organizational capability; Performance; Social reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944557499     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2903-y     Document Type: Article

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