Secondary stakeholder pressures and organizational adoption of sustainable operations practices: The mediating role of primary stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 910-923

  Shubham, ^a   Charan, Parikshit ^a   Murty, L S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT RAIPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

corporate sustainability; emerging economies; stakeholder theory; structural equation modeling; survey; sustainable practices

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85042365904     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2041     Document Type: Article

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