Overcoming barriers to implementing environmentally benign manufacturing practices: Strategic tools for SMEs

Environmental Quality Management

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 37-55

  Seidel, Manuel ^a   Seidel, Rainer ^a   Tedford, Des ^a   Cross, Richard ^b   Wait, Logan ^a,c   Hämmerle, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; STAKEHOLDER; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 66449109780     PISSN: 10881913     EISSN: 15206483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tqem.20214     Document Type: Article

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