Creating value with wastes: A model and typology of sustainability within firms

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 441-455

  Kabongo, Jean ^a   Boiral, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA MANATEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical framework; Dimensions; Industrial ecology; Residual material reclamation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; SUSTAINABILITY; TYPOLOGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 82255186551     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.709     Document Type: Article

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