Environmental strategy and low waste operations: exploring complementarities

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-118

  Simpson, Dayna ^a   Samson, Danny ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Environmental performance; Environmental strategy; Operation management

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953586219     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.626     Document Type: Article

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