On sustainable production networks for industry 4.0

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 421-431

  Prause, Gunnar ^a,b   Atari, Sina ^b  

^a Wismar Business School   (Germany)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Fractals; Industry 4.0; Modular factory; Production in network; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021335754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23450282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2017.4.4(2)     Document Type: Article

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