The adoption of environmental and risk management practices: Relationships to environmental performance

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 367-381

  Sarkis, Joseph ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Environmental performance; Manufacturing innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747837382     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-006-0040-9     Document Type: Article

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