The conceptualization of sustainability in operations management

2212-8271 © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the scientifi c committee of The 22nd CIRP conference on Life Cycle Engineering doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2015.01.038 Procedia CIRP 29 ( 2015 ) 532 – 537

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