The role of supply chain leadership in the learning of sustainable practice: Toward an integrated framework

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 140, Issue , 2017, Pages 239-250

  Gosling, Jonathan ^a   Jia, Fu ^a   Gong, Yu ^a   Brown, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content based literature review; Multinational corporations; Supply chain leadership; Supply chain learning; Sustainable supply chain management

Indexed keywords

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; FOUR DIMENSIONS; INTEGRAL PART; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES; SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84994563839     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.101     Document Type: Article

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