Assessment of enterprise performance for efficient sustainability management

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 104-118

  Kinderyte, Loreta ^a   Ciegis, Remigijus ^b   Staniskis, Jurgis Kazimieras ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Sustainability assessment; Sustainability indicators; Sustainability management system

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651376527     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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