Green manufacturing performance measures: An empirical investigation from Indian manufacturing industries

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 59-75

  Digalwar, Abhijeet K ^a   Tagalpallewar, Ashok R ^b   Sunnapwar, Vivek K ^c  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b Mumbai University   (India)

^c Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Empirical studies; Green manufacturing; India; Performance measures; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885442753     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBE-09-2012-0046     Document Type: Article

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