Facilitating strategic business responses to sustainability: Prospects and challenges for professional services firms

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 40, 2002, Pages 107-119

  Hartshorn, James ^a   Wheeler, David ^b  

^a GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting; Consulting; Innovation; Management of change; Professional services firms; Strategy; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Verification

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 0346277169     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9774/GLEAF.3062.2002.wi.00009     Document Type: Article

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