Green Product Innovation: Where we are and Where we are Going

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 560-576

  Dangelico, Rosa Maria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

green innovation; green product; sustainable development; systematic review

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84929594044     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1886     Document Type: Article

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