Seeing sustainability in business operations: US and British food retailer experiments with accountability

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 290-301

  Iles, Alastair ^a  

^a Chemical Foundry Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accountability; Britain; Corporate social responsibility; Food; Product life cycles; Retail; US

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RETAILING; SUSTAINABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248681282     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.483     Document Type: Article

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