Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream: Adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 4011-4018

  Diana, Gabriel Cepollaro ^a   Jabbour, Charbel José Chiappetta ^a,b   de Sousa Jabbour, Ana Beatriz Lopes ^a,c   Kannan, Devika ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Environmental technologies; Small and medium enterprises; Sustainability; Sustainable operations

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANUFACTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS; INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85006507530     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.054     Document Type: Article

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