Sustainable supply chain management: framework and further research directions

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 1119-1130

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Gunasekaran, Angappa ^b   Papadopoulos, Thanos ^c   Childe, Stephen J ^d   Shibin, K T ^e   Wamba, Samuel Fosso ^f  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Drivers; MICMAC; Sustainable supply chain; Total Interpretive Structural Modeling

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; TRUCK DRIVERS;

DYNAMIC NATURE; INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURAL MODELING; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MICMAC; SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84963983959     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.117     Document Type: Article

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