Sustainable supply chain management and inter-organizational resources: A literature review

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 230-245

  Gold, Stefan ^a   Seuring, Stefan ^a   Beske, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case studies; Inter organizational resources; Literature review; Resource based view; Sustainable development; Sustainable supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949320389     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.207     Document Type: Article

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