20 years of performance measurement in sustainable supply chain management – what has been achieved?

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 664-680

  Beske Janssen, Philip ^a   Johnson, Matthew Phillip ^a   Schaltegger, Stefan ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Performance measurement; Performance measures; Sustainable supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944899753     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-06-2015-0216     Document Type: Review

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