Flexibility strategies for sustainable technology development

Technovation

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 335-343

  Knot, J MarjolijnC ^a   Van den Ende, Jan C M ^b   Vergragt, Philip J ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Lock in; PVC; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

POLYVINYL CHLORIDES;

EID: 0035372307     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(00)00049-3     Document Type: Article

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