Identifying environmentally important supply chain clusters in the automobile industry

Economic Systems Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 265-286

  Kagawa, Shigemi ^a   Suh, Sangwon ^b   Kondo, Yasushi ^c,d   Nansai, Keisuke ^e,f  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy clusters; Laplacian matrix; Spectral clustering analysis; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING; SUSTAINABILITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84880608983     PISSN: 09535314     EISSN: 14695758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2012.730992     Document Type: Article

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