How corporations deal with reporting sustainability: Assessment using the multicriteria logistic biplot approach

Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-26

  Galindo, Purificación Vicente ^a   Vaz, Eric ^b   de Noronha, Teresa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Global reporting initiative (GRI); Large corporations; Logistic biplot; Social responsibility; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85111456310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20798954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/systems3010006     Document Type: Article

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