Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability: Mapping the Field

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-229

  Schaltegger, Stefan ^a   Beckmann, Markus ^a,b   Hansen, Erik G ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic practitioner gap; Corporate sustainability; Research method; Rigour and relevance; Sustainability sciences; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; COMPLEXITY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH METHOD; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84878173699     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1772     Document Type: Article

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