The challenging transition to bio-economies: Towards a new framework integrating corporate sustainability and value co-creation

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 172, Issue , 2018, Pages 4001-4009

  Aquilani, Barbara ^a   Silvestri, Cecilia ^a   Ioppolo, Giuseppe ^b   Ruggieri, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bio economy; Sustainability; Sustainability Oriented Theory of the Firm; Theoretical framework; Value co creation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIOHAZARDS; COPPER; ETHANOL; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INK; INK JET PRINTING; MASKS; MICROANALYSIS; MICROFABRICATION; PHOTORESISTS; PRINTING; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

CIRCUIT FABRICATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; ETCH RESISTS; ETCHANT CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL BIOMATERIALS; PRINTING PERFORMANCE; RENEWABLE MATERIALS; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 85038876386     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.153     Document Type: Article

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