Chalmers Conferences, LCM 2013

ORGANIZING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT CHAINS OF A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION: LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE
Hanna Nilsson, Henrikke Baumann

Last modified: 2014-09-11

Abstract


LCM literature is mainly of a normative character and LCM is typically defined by holistic environmental focus, internal integration, collaboration with external actors and carried out with an abundant LCM-based toolbox. To contrast, a study of LCM in practice shows here how LCM is enacted by linking environmental initiatives attached to different steps of a generic product chain. It also shows how practitioners struggle with processes of internal integration and external collaboration.

Keywords


life cycle management (LCM); product chain; knowledge capabilities

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