Why do firms adopt advanced environmental practices (and do they make a difference)?

Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 82-104

  Florida, Richard ^a   Davison, Derek ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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