Environmental Policies for Evaluating Suppliers' Performance Based on GRI Indicators

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 98-111

  Chiarini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

environmental sustainable supply chain management; GRI; multi regression model; supplier environmental performances

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MANUFACTURING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84941796942     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1907     Document Type: Article

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