Green Service: Construct Development and Measurement Validation

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 432-457

  Chan, Ting Yan ^a   Wong, Christina W Y ^a   Lai, Kee Hung ^a   Lun, Venus Y H ^a   Ng, Chi To ^a   Ngai, Eric W T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

empirical; environmental management; green service practices; multi method research design; research methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960434530     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12407     Document Type: Article

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