Investigating critical organizational factors toward sustainability index: Insights from the Taiwanese electronics industry

Business Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 468-479

  Hsu, Chia Wei ^a,b   Chang, Dong Shang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 85026639538     PISSN: 09628770     EISSN: 14678608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/beer.12154     Document Type: Article

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