Shortage of sustainable supply chain talent: An industrial training framework

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 86-94

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Gunasekaran, Angappa ^b  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Sustainable supply chain talent; Sustainable supply chain training framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922742746     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ICT-08-2014-0052     Document Type: Article

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