The greening of global value chains: Insights from the furniture industry

Competition and Change

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 299-318

  De Marchi, Valentina ^a   Di Maria, Eleonora ^a   Ponte, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental sustainability; Furniture industry; Global value chain; Governance; Ikea; Italy; Valcucine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885208877     PISSN: 10245294     EISSN: 14772221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1024529413Z.00000000040     Document Type: Article

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