Overcoming barriers to implementing environmentally benign manufacturing practices: Strategic tools for SMEs
Overcoming barriers to implementing environmentally benign manufacturing practices: Strategic tools for SMEs
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克服实施环保制造实践的障碍:中小企业的战略工具
DOI:
10.1002/tqem.20214
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
E. Hämmerle
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作者:
M. Seidel;R. Seidel;D. Tedford;R. Cross;Logan Wait;E. Hämmerle
The article focuses on the barriers that are experienced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in moving toward sustainability in manufacturing. It provides an overview of sustainability and environmentally benign production, its role in SMEs, and the growing research interests in SME. It presents the special features of SMEs including its management and organizational structure, focus on local markets, and day-to-day orientation. It emphasizes on the barriers in adopting sustainable practices in SMS and the corresponding process in overcoming those barriers. It reveals the use of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis and life-cycle assessment (LCA) in studying the problems. It further cites the conduct of life-cycle inventory (LCI) in ABC Ltd.