Sustainable supply chain management in "Base of the Pyramid" food projects-A path to triple bottom line approaches for multinationals?

International Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 784-799

  Gold, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Rüdiger ^b   Seuring, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Base of the Pyramid; Developing countries; Food industry; Supply chain management; Sustainability; Triple bottom line

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879143314     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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