Social sustainable supply chain management in the textile and apparel industry-a literature review

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Köksal, Deniz ^a   Strähle, Jochen ^a   Müller, Martin ^b   Freise, Matthias ^a  

^a REUTLINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Social sustainability; Sustainable supply chain management; Textile apparel industry

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LITERATURE REVIEW; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESEARCH WORK; STAKEHOLDER; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 85011049917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9010100     Document Type: Review

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