Citation
(2012), "User Integration in Sustainable Product Development – Organisational Learning through Boundary-Spanning Processes", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 23 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2012.08323eaa.010
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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User Integration in Sustainable Product Development – Organisational Learning through Boundary-Spanning Processes
User Integration in Sustainable Product Development – Organisational Learning through Boundary-Spanning Processes
Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 5.
Edited by Esther HoffmannGreenleaf PublishingSheffieldJanuary 2012352 pp.ISBN 9781906093693£21.95
User Integration in Sustainable Product Development sheds new light on the interaction between companies and users in innovation processes and how they relate to sustainable product development.
Its focus on organisational learning at and across the boundaries of companies is original, stimulating, improves our understanding of user-producer interactions and distinguishes the book from other publications on the market. The book provides a hugely comprehensive overview of user integration in innovation processes: its advantages, problems and weaknesses, and the methods in which it is currently applied. This, along with a systematic analysis of organisational learning provides the reader with a complete understanding of what has to be considered when studying user-producer interactions from a company perspective and provides the basis for further improvements and company strategies to advance the take-up of sustainable products.