Evaluating sustainability practices in terms of stakeholders' satisfaction

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-76

  Sangle, Shirish ^a   Babu, P Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd India   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Life cycle thinking; SMS; Stakeholder management; Stakeholder Management System; Stakeholder satisfaction; Systems approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846962531     PISSN: 14779048     EISSN: 1741802X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBGE.2007.011934     Document Type: Article

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