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Towards strategic sustainability performance evaluation: a study of Portuguese
companies
Dias-Sardinha, I.M.
Publication date
2004
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Dias-Sardinha, I. M. (2004). Towards strategic sustainability performance evaluation: a study
of Portuguese companies.
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Acknowledgements s
Myy first acknowledgements go to Lucas Reijnders. He was the most attentive,, patient and devoted promoter that a PhD researcher wishes.. He was the best "co-pilot" to work with. From the beginning off this thesis he has always offered me technical and personal supportt without which it would have been difficult to accomplish this work.. To him I give many and warm thanks.
II also want to thank for the useful help, and comments on the papers, particularlyy at the end of the project, and on the final thesis from Paulaa Antunes, my co-promoter, that were given in spite of the distance. .
II am also much indebted to Peter Koppert, my colleague at IVAM withh whom I had discussions about my work and a very good personall relationship. I also acknowledge the essential and outstandingg co-operation of all the respondents of the companies, whoo mostly did show considerable interest in my work. I would like too thank all the colleagues involved in data collection, the ones that havee given their opinion on the work and the ones have helped with itss organization.
Otherr people have been part of my life during the time this work took placee and have indirectly contributed to it, giving me a great deal of support. .
IVAMM was for 4 years the place where I worked. Many thanks, to all myy colleagues for their warm welcome and friendship. I am indebted too the friends I met in Holland with whom I shared the experience of beingg a citizen of the world in spite of still having Portuguese cultural roots. .
Thankk to my friends Ana Sofia Sampaio and Teresa Chinita that maintainn their phone and friendship line open. My warm thanks goes too you Jorge and "our love", which even at a distance is always there too fulfil part of my life. My sister and her family who I enormously love andd can rely on. My family, my mother and father who allowed me to saill by a simple phone call to a known immutable place.
II thank all the people that are not here referred but although having directlyy or indirectly been with me sharing my last five years' period. Amsterdam,, February 2004
