Sustainable development strategies for product innovation and energy efficiency

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-144

  Gerstlberger, Wolfgang ^a   Præst Knudsen, Mette ^a   Stampe, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Green innovation; Manufacturing; Performance; Regression analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894249931     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1777     Document Type: Article

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