Organizing life cycle management in practice: challenges of a multinational manufacturing corporation

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1368-1382

  Nilsson Lindén, Hanna ^a   Baumann, Henrikke ^a   Rosén, Magnus ^b   Diedrich, Andreas ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental life cycle management (LCM); Integration; Networks; Organization; Practice oriented; Product chains; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85098041366     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0818-y     Document Type: Article

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