A performance framework for corporate sustainability

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 475-490

  Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi ^a   Nayak, Raveendranath Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuous improvement; Corporate sustainability; CS; Environmental performance; Financial performance; PDCA cycle; Social performance; TBL; Total quality management; TQM; Triple bottom line

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955411859     PISSN: 17510252     EISSN: 17510260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2010.034382     Document Type: Article

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