Surviving or flourishing? Integrating business resilience and sustainability

Journal of Strategy and Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 303-315

  Winnard, Julie ^a,b   Adcroft, Andy ^c   Lee, Jacquetta ^a   Skipp, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Flourishing; Resilience; Strategy and risk; Sustainability; Sustainable business

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973253646     PISSN: 1755425X     EISSN: 17554268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JSMA-11-2012-0059     Document Type: Article

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