Integrating corporate sustainability assessment, management accounting, control, and reporting

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 237-248

  Maas, Karen ^a   Schaltegger, Stefan ^b   Crutzen, Nathalie ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c Research Center QuantOM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Integrated sustainability approach; Sustainability management accounting; Sustainability management control; Sustainability reporting

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY; INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES; SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENTS; SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84969565340     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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