Environmental Management Evolution Framework: Maturity Stages and Causal Loops

Organization and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 27-50

  Ormazabal, Marta ^a   Rich, Eliot ^b   Sarriegi, Jose M ^a   Viles, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

causal loop diagrams; environmental management; evolution; maturity stages

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85013409058     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026615623060     Document Type: Article

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