Motivational influences on supply manager environmental sustainability behavior

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 305-320

  Anthony Swaim, James ^a   Maloni, Michael J ^a   Henley, Amy ^a   Campbell, Stacy ^a  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental management; Organizational behaviour; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982938297     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-07-2015-0283     Document Type: Article

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