Take your time: Examining when green innovation affects financial performance in multinationals

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 233, Issue , 2019, Pages 993-1003

  Rezende, Lígia de Azevedo ^a   Bansi, Ana Cláudia ^b   Alves, Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues ^a,b   Galina, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Federal Institute of São Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Financial performance; Green innovation; Green patent; Internationalization; Multinationals; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; GREEN INNOVATIONS; GREEN PATENT; INTERNATIONALIZATION; MULTINATIONALS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 85067385388     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.135     Document Type: Article

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