The sustainable firm as an ethical construct

Sustainable Business: Theory and Practice of Business under Sustainability Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 52-72

  Wells, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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