An 'incitement to discourse': Benchmarking as a springboard to sustainable development

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Springett, Delyse ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANER PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0037253656     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.345     Document Type: Article

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