Accounting towards sustainability in production and supply chains

British Accounting Review

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 327-343

  Burritt, Roger ^a   Schaltegger, Stefan ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accounting; Management; Production; Supply chain; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919477829     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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