Premium
Life cycle management: Integrated approach towards corporate environmental issues
Author(s) -
Linnanen Lassi
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.3280040303
Subject(s) - product lifecycle , product life cycle management , process management , environmental management system , business , process (computing) , life cycle assessment , organizational culture , product (mathematics) , management process , circular economy , environmental resource management , management science , computer science , new product development , operations management , engineering , management system , economics , marketing , management , production (economics) , ecology , geometry , mathematics , macroeconomics , irrigation , biology , operating system
An integrated approach towards environmental management, the concept of life cycle management, is presented. Life cycle management consists of three parts: (i) integrating environmental issues into the decision‐making process of the company; (ii) optimizing the environmental impact caused by the product system during its life cycle; and (iii) creating a new organizational culture to support the decision‐making process. The concept was developed during the compilation of an environmental management handbook for Finnish industry. The model combines a market‐oriented environmental management approach, a circular value chains approach and an organizational culture approach.