Measuring sustainable development using process models

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 649-656

  Isaksson, Raine ^a   Garvare, Rickard ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Auditing principles; Ethics; Small to medium sized enterprises; Sustainable development; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986149602     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900310495142     Document Type: Article

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