Total responsibility management indicators and sustainable development

International Journal of Sustainable Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 248-264

  Gorenak, Štefka ^a   Bobek, Vito ^b,c  

^a Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences   (Slovenia)

^b FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Case; Consumers behaviour; Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Environmental management; Responsible competitiveness; Sustainable development; Sustainable indicators; Total quality management; Total responsibility management; TQM; TRM; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055183818     PISSN: 17562538     EISSN: 17562546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2010.034763     Document Type: Article

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