Environmental management in operations: The selection of environmental technologies

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 601-631

  Klassen, Robert D ^a   Whybark, D Clay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster Analysis; Natural Environment; Operations Strategy; Survey Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039522013     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb00900.x     Document Type: Article

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