Sustainability assessment in remanufacturing companies - qualitative approach
[ 1 ] Katedra Zarządzania Produkcją i Logistyki, Wydział Inżynierii Zarządzania, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] pracownik
2018
rozdział w monografii naukowej
angielski
- remanufacturing operations
- maturity level
- sustainability assessment
EN In the last three decades the concept of sustainability has gained a growing attention. There are different initiatives around the world which aim to provide methods and tools for sustainability assessment at a company level. The majority of existing quantitative methods require extended scope of data to be collected and analyzed. Small and medium size remanufacturing enterprises lack the know-how and technical resources to apply them. For this reason there is still research gap regarding the qualitative, easy applicable methods for sustainability assessment, which might be applied, based on expert’s knowledge. The aim of this chapter is to present a new qualitative method, which provides cross company valid sustainability assessment criteria. The method allows assessing the level of maturity of resources utilization in a company with regards to the three dimensions of sustainability. The chapter presents the research methodology and the results of the application of the method in the companies.
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