Strategies for competitiveness and sustainability: Adaptation of a Brazilian subsidiary of a Swedish multinational corporation

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3708-3716

  Santos, Rita ^a   Wennersten, Ronald ^a   Oliva, Eduardo B L ^b   Filho, Walter Leal ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innovation; Multinational corporations; R D; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION;

ENTERPRISE IS; ERICSSON; INNOVATION; IT FOCUS; MICRO LEVEL; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE; SWEDISHS; TECHNOLOGICAL DYNAMICS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPETITIVENESS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; SWEDEN; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349202533     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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