The Relationship Between Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Stakeholder Pressure and Corporate Sustainability Performance

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-328

  Wolf, Julia ^a  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability performance; Regression; Stakeholder pressure; Supply chain management; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893662101     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1603-0     Document Type: Article

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