Green product design with engineering tradeoffs under technology efficient frontiers: Analytical results and empirical tests

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 340-352

  Chen, Chialin ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Design for the environment; natural environment; technology efficient frontiers

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY PRODUCT; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTES; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT; TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84876758578     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2012.2212199     Document Type: Article

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