Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Levy, David L ^a,b   Lichtenstein, Benyamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness   (United States)

Author keywords

Business; Climate change; Complexity theory; Governance; Life cycle analyses; Management; Natural environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924874394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199584451.003.0032     Document Type: Chapter

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