Sustainable procurement of minor items - Exploring limits to sustainability

Sustainable Development

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 284-294

  Haake, Hans ^a   Seuring, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Minor items; Purchasing; Supply chain management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; NATIONAL TRADE; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 70350142407     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.424     Document Type: Article

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