Measures for Sustainable Investment Decisions and Business Strategy – A Triple Bottom Line Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 16-38

  Cubas Díaz, Maite ^a,b   Martínez Sedano, Miguel Ángel ^a,b  

^a Department of Financial Economics I ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

commitment measurement; ESG criteria; investment decisions; sustainability performance measurement; sustainable development; TBL

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85031666471     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1980     Document Type: Article

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