Business opportunities and challenges as the two sides of the climate change: Corporate responses and potential implications for big data management towards a low carbon society

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 189, Issue , 2018, Pages 763-774

  Roman Pais Seles, Bruno Michel ^a   Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Ana Beatriz ^b   Jabbour, Charbel José Chiappetta ^b   de Camargo Fiorini, Paula ^a,b   Mohd Yusoff, Yusliza ^c   Tavares Thomé, Antônio Márcio ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Big data; Climate change; Environmental management; Global warming; Sustainable operations

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LOW-CARBON SOCIETIES; REGULATORY SUPPORT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85046679338     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.113     Document Type: Article

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