Redesigning the industrial ecology of the automobile

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 15-30

  Wells, Peter ^a   Orsato, Renato J ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Distributed economies; Local production and consumption; Micro factory retailing (MFR); Supply chain management; Sustainable business

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; SALES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES; LOCAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION; MICRO FACTORY RETAILING (MFR); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY;

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; DESIGN; MANUFACTURING; RETAILING; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 24644501689     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1088198054821645     Document Type: Review

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