Self-governance for sustainable global supply chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed?

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 73-85

  Vermeulen, Walter J V ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Certification; Global trade; Governance; Sustainable supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923427644     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1804     Document Type: Article

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