Sustainability and New Product Development: Five Exploratory Case Studies in the Automotive Industry

Greening of Industry Networks Studies

Volumn 5, Issue , 2018, Pages 211-232

  Gmelin, Harald ^a   Seuring, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Case study; Corporate sustainability; New product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047453909     PISSN: 25430246     EISSN: 25430254     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59587-0_13     Document Type: Chapter

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