Green supply chains and the missing link between environmental information and practice

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-25

  Solér, Cecilia ^a   Bergström, Kerstin ^b   Shanahan, Helena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Green supply chain; Purchasing; Supply chain manager; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOOD SUPPLY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTION COST;

SWEDEN;

EID: 74549201522     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.655     Document Type: Article

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