Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
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social movements theory; institutional change theory; private politics; activist shareholder resolutions; climate change; environmental sustainability;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2008-08-21 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ENV-2008-08-21 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2008-08-21 (Positive Political Economics)
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