Green purchasing is key to superior performance: An empirical study

International Journal of Procurement Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-210

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Bag, Surajit ^b   Ali, Sadia Samar ^c   Venkatesh, V G ^a  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b Tega Industries Limited   (India)

^c FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Green procurement; Partial least square regression analysis; PLSR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878625771     PISSN: 17538432     EISSN: 17538440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2013.052469     Document Type: Article

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