Surviving or flourishing? Integrating business resilience and sustainability
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Surviving or Flourishing? Integrating Business Resilience and Sustainability
Purpose Businesses are always seeking resilient strategies so they can weather unpredictable competitive environments. One source of unpredictability is the unsustainability of commerce’s environmental, economic or social impacts and the limitations this places on businesses. Another is poor resilience causing erroneous and unexpected outputs. Companies prospering long-term must have both resil...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Strategy and Management
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1755-425X
DOI: 10.1108/jsma-11-2012-0059