Proactive environmental strategy in a supply chain context: The mediating role of investments

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1079-1095

  Ateş, Melek Akin ^a   Bloemhof, Jacqueline ^b   Van Raaij, Erik M ^a   Wynstra, Finn ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

environmental investments; proactive environmental strategy; structural equation modelling; supply chain; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TURKEY; TURKISHS;

INVESTMENTS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857919001     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.555426     Document Type: Article

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