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Civil & Environmental Engineering

Green culture, environmental innovativeness, green intellectual capital and circular economy implementation behaviour: A sequential mediation model

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Article: 2220496 | Received 10 Mar 2023, Accepted 29 May 2023, Published online: 06 Jun 2023

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