Corporate sustainability reporting: How to benefit from ICT for communicating à la carte

Handbook of Corporate Sustainability: Frameworks, Strategies and Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-248

  Isenmann, Ralf ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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