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Explaining Shades of Green: Why Do Companies Act Differently on Similar Environmental Issues?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , Summer 2005 , pp. 551 - 581
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2005 

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