Sustainable Purchasing in Food Retailing: Interorganizational Relationship Management to Green Product Supply

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 478-494

  Chkanikova, Olga ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

food retailers; supplier relations; sustainability issues; sustainable purchasing; sustainable supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD MARKET; RESEARCH WORK; RETAILING; STAKEHOLDER; SUPERMARKET; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

DENMARK; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84923233557     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1877     Document Type: Article

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