Exploring a scale of organizational barriers for enterprises’ climate change adaptation strategies

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 160, Issue , 2017, Pages 38-49

  Herrmann, Jana ^a   Guenther, Edeltraud ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barriers to change; Climate change (adaptation); Context specificity; Multinational enterprises; Small and medium sized enterprises; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

SUPPLY CHAINS;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; BARRIERS TO CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CONTEXT-SPECIFICITY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; ORGANIZATIONAL BARRIERS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85016000038     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.009     Document Type: Article

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