Transdisciplinary Research in Sustainable Operations - An Application to Closed-Loop Supply Chains

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 245-268

  Sahamie, Ramin ^a   Stindt, Dennis ^a   Nuss, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Closed loop supply chains; Interdisciplinarity; Recovery; Reverse logistics; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LOGISTICS; MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84878190837     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1771     Document Type: Article

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