Environmental sustainability in industrial manufacturing: Re-examining the greening of Interface's business model

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-61

  Rajala, Risto ^a   Westerlund, Mika ^b   Lampikoski, Tommi ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RAMSE Consulting   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business ecosystem; Business model; Environmental sustainability; Interface; Organizational identity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MANAGERS; MANUFACTURE;

BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM; BUSINESS MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; STRATEGIC CHANGES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84957851190     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.057     Document Type: Article

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