Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage: The Role of Small- and Medium-Sized enterprises' Dynamic Capabilities

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 584-596

  Ko, Wai Wai ^a   Liu, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic capabilities; environmental strategy; institutional theory; resource based theory; SMEs

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; MARKETING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85006513253     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1938     Document Type: Article

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