Sustainable green supply chain management: trends and current practices

Competitiveness Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 265-288

  Singh, Amol ^a   Trivedi, Ashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ROHTAK   (India)

Author keywords

Green supply chain; Supply chain; Sustainable supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979085255     PISSN: 10595422     EISSN: 20513143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CR-05-2015-0034     Document Type: Review

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