Putting sustainability into supply chain management

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 322-331

  Beske, Philip ^a   Seuring, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Competitive advantage; Conceptual framework; Practices; Risk management; Sustainable supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907997569     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-12-2013-0432     Document Type: Article

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