Leveraging green is in logistics: Developing an artifact for greenhouse gas emission tracking

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 315-325

  Hilpert, Hendrik ^a   Kranz, Johann ^a   Schumann, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design science research; Environmental management information systems; Green IS; Greenhouse gas emissions; Smart logistics; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027939085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-013-0285-1     Document Type: Article

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