Towards a holistic sustainability index for measuring sustainability of manufacturing companies

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4117-4139

  Harik, Ramy ^a   El Hachem, Wissam ^b   Medini, Khaled ^c   Bernard, Alain ^d  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Henri FAYOL institute   (France)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

analytical hierarchy process; performance measures; sustainable manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPETITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY DIMENSIONS; SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84929502185     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.993773     Document Type: Article

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