Web-based environmental management systems for SMEs: Enhancing the diffusion of environmental management in the transportation sector

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 655-677

  Maijala, Adeline ^a   Pohjola, Tuula ^b  

^a Proventia Solutions   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 84892127584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4974-3_29     Document Type: Chapter

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