Green supply chain management enablers: Mixed methods research

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-88

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Gunasekaran, Angappa ^b   Papadopoulos, Thanos ^c   Childe, Stephen J ^d  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental Management (EM); Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM); Institutional theory; Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM); MICMAC analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949195717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.07.001     Document Type: Article

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