Business ecology: The future of green business?

New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations: Emerging Ideas, Approaches and Tools for Practitioners and Researchers

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 187-213

  Townsend, Amy K ^a  

^a Sustainable Development International Corp   (United States)

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