The maturity of supply chain sustainability disclosure from a continuous improvement perspective

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 827-855

  Okongwu, Uche ^a   Morimoto, Risako ^b   Lauras, Matthieu ^a  

^a TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business to business; Business to customer; Disclosure maturity levels; Principal component analysis; Supply chain sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885054041     PISSN: 17410401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJPPM-02-2013-0032     Document Type: Article

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