Abstract
Sustainable product development (SPD) has received increasing attention by scholars and practitioners recently. A challenge for them is to incorporate sustainability in the firms’ fuzzy front end (FFE) to assess sustainability impacts of proposed products at early stage. The paper presents a research framework that shows the critical process interfaces in supplier and customer involvement in the FFE of SPD. The novelty of the paper lies in the postulation that SPD requires discontinues change in the supply chain and/or customer context, and that this change only can be made when the external interfaces are sufficiently supported in the FFE process.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the EUROMA 2013 Conference, June 7-12 2013, Dublin, Ireland |
Pages | 1-10 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 20th International Annual EurOMA Conference 2013 - University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 9 Jun 2013 → 12 Jun 2013 Conference number: 20 |
Conference
Conference | 20th International Annual EurOMA Conference 2013 |
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Abbreviated title | EurOMA |
Country/Territory | Ireland |
City | Dublin |
Period | 9/06/13 → 12/06/13 |
Other | Operations Management at the Heart of the Recovery |