Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice

Stefan Schaltegger; Jacob Hörisch; Dorli  Harms

Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice

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Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice. / Schaltegger, Stefan ; Hörisch, Jacob ; Harms, Dorli.
Abstracts. 15th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting: in collaboration with the CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Environmental Management Accounting for a Sustainable Economy. Helsinki: Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences , 2012.

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Schaltegger, S , Hörisch, J & Harms, D 2012, Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice. in Abstracts. 15th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting: in collaboration with the CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Environmental Management Accounting for a Sustainable Economy. Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences , Helsinki, 15th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting - EMAN 2012, Helsinki, Finnland, 24.09.12.

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Schaltegger, S., Hörisch, J., & Harms, D. (2012). Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice. In Abstracts. 15th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting: in collaboration with the CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Environmental Management Accounting for a Sustainable Economy Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences .

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Schaltegger S , Hörisch J , Harms D. Glancing into the Applied Tool Box: Surveying Operational Sustainability Accounting Practice. in Abstracts. 15th EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting: in collaboration with the CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research Environmental Management Accounting for a Sustainable Economy. Helsinki: Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences . 2012

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