Addressing the Challenge of Modeling for Decision-Making in Socially Responsible Operations

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1390-1401

  Besiou, Maria ^a   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^b  

^a KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

management science; operations research; socially responsible operations; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940956577     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12375     Document Type: Review

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