Environmental Innovations and Firm Profitability: Unmasking the Porter Hypothesis

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 57 Số 1 - Trang 145-167 - 2014
Sascha Rexhäuser1,2, Christian Rammer1
1Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
2Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

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