Sustainability Strategy and Eco-Innovation: A Moderation Model

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 426-437

  Tsai, Kuen Hung ^a   Liao, Yi Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DHURAKIJ PUNDIT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

eco innovation; environmental innovation; environmental policy; government subsidy; market demand; proactive environmental strategy; sustainability strategy; technology push

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992189518     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1926     Document Type: Article

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