Design for sustainability in companies: Strategies, drivers and needs of Turkey's best performing businesses

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 455-465

  Küçüksayraç, Elif ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design for sustainability; Ecodesign strategies; Industrial design; Product development; Turkish industry

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECODESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

BRAND VALUES; ECODESIGN STRATEGIES; MARKET DEMAND; POLICY MAKERS; TOOLS AND METHODS; TURKISHS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84930373482     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.01.061     Document Type: Article

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