The Drivers of Corporate Climate Change Strategies and Public Policy: A New Resource-Based View Perspective

Business and Society

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 545-575

  Backman, Charles A ^a   Verbeke, Alain ^a,b,c   Schulz, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon Disclosure Project; climate change; GISTe model; public policy; resource based view; walk I; walk II; walk the talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015283608     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650315578450     Document Type: Article

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