Sustaining Competitive Advantage Through Corporate Environmental Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 345-357

  Yadav, Prayag Lal ^a   Han, Seung Hun ^a   Kim, Hohyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

competitive advantage; environmental performance; persistence of superior performance; profitability growth; sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; PROFITABILITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84992202396     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1921     Document Type: Article

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