Why food companies go green? The determinant factors to adopt eco-innovations

British Food Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1317-1333

  Bossle, Marilia Bonzanini ^a,b   De Barcellos, Marcia Dutra ^b   Vieira, Luciana Marques ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eco innovation; Food companies; Green technologies; Performance; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANAGER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAFF; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85012910113     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-10-2015-0388     Document Type: Article

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