Guest editorial: Sustainability in engineering management-setting the foundation for the path forward

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 301-314

  Sarkis, Joseph ^a   De Bruijn, Theo ^b   Zhu, Qinghua ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAXION UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Engineering management; literature review; special issue; sustainability

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC JOURNAL; ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; LITERATURE REVIEWS; POTENTIAL RESEARCHES; SPECIAL ISSUE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 84876747599     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2013.2253239     Document Type: Review

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