Environmental sustainability orientation, competitive strategy and financial performance

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 885-895

  Danso, Albert ^a   Adomako, Samuel ^b   Amankwah Amoah, Joseph ^c   Owusu Agyei, Samuel ^a   Konadu, Renata ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

competitive strategy; environmental orientation; financial performance; stakeholder engagement; sub Saharan Africa, Ghana; sustainability; sustainable development

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MARKET; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

GHANA;

EID: 85061799398     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2291     Document Type: Article

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