The influence of green supply chain integration and environmental uncertainty on green innovation in Taiwan's IT industry

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 539-552

  Wu, Guo Ciang ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Environmental uncertainty; Green innovation; Green supply chain integration; Green supply chain management; Information technology industry; Innovation; Natural resources; Natural resource based view; Supply chain management; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883096520     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-06-2012-0201     Document Type: Article

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