End of life aircrafts recovery and green supply chain (a conceptual framework for addressing opportunities and challenges)

Management Research Review

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1098-1124

  Keivanpour, Samira ^a   Ait Kadi, Daoud ^a   Mascle, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerospace business context; Aircraft manufacturers; Challenges; Complexity; End of life aircrafts; Green supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947072542     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MRR-11-2014-0267     Document Type: Article

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