Building a business case for corporate sustainability

Managing the Business Case for Sustainability: The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 412-443

  Steger, Ulrich ^a  

^a IMD   (Switzerland)

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