The road to cooperative supply-chain environmental management: Trust and uncertainty among pro-active firms

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Sharfman, Mark P ^a   Shaft, Teresa M ^a   Anex Jr , Robert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Environmental management; Supply chain; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 60649100039     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.580     Document Type: Article

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