Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions has been at the forefront of current research efforts in the past decade. The aim of these efforts was defined at the earth summit in Rio de Janeiro as achieving “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that...

Existing conceptual and empirical contributions emphasise the significant payoffs available to companies that manage their environmental impacts effectively (Porter and van der Linde, 1995; Christmann, 2000; Hart, 1997; Arag?n-Correa et al., 2004). In spite of this, empirical evidence concerning the extent...