Drivers and barriers of environmentally conscious manufacturing: A comparative study of Indian and German organizations

Leveraging Technology for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 97-102

  Mittal, Varinder Kumar ^a   Sangwan, Kuldip Singh ^a   Herrmann, Christoph ^b   Egede, Patricia ^b   Wulbusch, Christian ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ECM barriers; ECM drivers; Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; LIFE CYCLE;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DECISION MAKERS; EMERGING ECONOMIES; ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS MANUFACTURING; GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL GROWTH; MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL CHALLENGES;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84892368668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29069-5_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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