The constructs of sustainable supply chain management - A content analysis based on published case studies

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-137

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case studies; Content analysis; SCM; Supply chain management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; RESEARCH WORK; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958084425     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2010.036045     Document Type: Article

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