Sustainable supply chain and company performance: A global examination

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 332-350

  Ortas, Eduardo ^a   Moneva, José M ^a   Álvarez, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Business administration; Company performance; Corporate responsibility; Corporate social responsibility; Environmental management; Environmental performance; Granger causation; Green supply chains; Sustainability; Sustainable supply chain management; Sustainable supply chain performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919485219     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-12-2013-0444     Document Type: Article

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