The sustainability syndicate: Shared responsibility in a trans-organizational business model

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 765-772

  Seshadri, Sudhi ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Business model; Plural governance; Stakeholder responsibility; Sustainability; Syndicate; Trans organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884147257     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.05.014     Document Type: Article

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