Industrial Ecology and Competitiveness: Strategic Implications for the Firm

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-43

  Esty, Daniel C ^a   Porter, Michael E ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed loop; Competitiveness; Corporate environmental management; Eco efficiency; Externalities resource; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002669059     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1998.2.1.35     Document Type: Article

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