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Environmental Governance as a Mediating and Moderating Variable Between Environmental Auditing and Sustainable Performance Cover

Environmental Governance as a Mediating and Moderating Variable Between Environmental Auditing and Sustainable Performance

Foundations of Management
Volume 17 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)
By: Azher Subhi ABDULHUSSEINORCID and  Ali Abdulhassan ABBASORCID  
Open Access
|Mar 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fman-2025-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5661 | Journal ISSN: 2080-7279
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Language: English
Page range: 7 - 24
Published on: Mar 21, 2025
Published by: Warsaw University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Environmental Auditing,
EG,
Sustainability,
Economic Performance,
Sustainable Performance,
Iraqi Environmental Policies
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Business computing,
Business and economics,
Business management,
Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

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