Green supply chain management: Implementation and performance – a literature review and some issues

Journal of Advances in Management Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-46

  Luthra, Sunil ^a   Garg, Dixit ^a   Haleem, Abid ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Green supply chain management (GSCM); Green supply chain management implementation; Performance measurement; Supply chain management (SCM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939618338     PISSN: 09727981     EISSN: 20493207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JAMR-07-2012-0027     Document Type: Article

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