Implications of an interpretive understanding of LCA practice

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 420-430

  Rex, Emma ^a   Baumann, Henrikke ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Field study; Forest product industry; Interpretive explanations; LCA practice; Organization theory; Sweden

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 57749186648     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.633     Document Type: Article

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