Sustainable innovation networks: An empirical study on interorganisational networks in industrial ecology

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-450

  Walter, Alexander I ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Network analysis; Stakeholder analysis; Sustainability learning; Transdisciplinarity; Transdisciplinary planning

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34047155606     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2006.012270     Document Type: Article

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