Sustainable operations management: Practices and measures in the food industry

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 335-352

  Neves, Tainan ^a   Drohomeretski, Everton ^a   Gouvea Da Costa, Sergio E ^a,b   De Lima, Edson Pinheiro ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Food industry; Food sector; Operations management; Performance measures; Practices and measures; Sustainability; Sustainable operations management; Sustainable practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930453946     PISSN: 1758938X     EISSN: 17589398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2014.066827     Document Type: Article

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