Assessing the Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs: Does Certification Matter?
The promotion of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) as alternative approaches to traditional environmental regulation has fueled numerous researchers to evaluate VEP performance. However, these studies have focused on-assessing the environmental performance of a single VEP. As yet, we know litt...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 95 - 118 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2008
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