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Sustainable Product Service Systems in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Opportunities in the Leather Manufacturing Industry

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 30 Jan 2012Publisher:MDPI AGJournal:Sustainability, volume 4, pages 175-192 (eissn: 2071-1050,

Authors: Ricardo J. Hernández Pardo; Tracy Bhamra; Ran Bhamra;

doi: 10.3390/su4020175

Sustainable Product Service Systems in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Opportunities in the Leather Manufacturing Industry

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to identify opportunities to develop sustainable Product Service Systems (PSS) involving Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of the research is to build understanding of how the integration of product and service design and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can contribute to identify opportunities to develop sustainable PSS involving SMEs. In order to develop the approach, research with 16 Colombian Manufacturing SMEs was carried out. A reference model and four generic types of PSS according to the relationships between product and service design and ICT are used to analyse the data. Finally, the possibility of extending the approach into a general framework to work with other industries is discussed.

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Keywords

design, TJ807-830, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, organizational transformation, Product Service Systems, Environmental effects of industries and plants, design for sustainability, SME, green operations, Environmental sciences, ICT, design for sustainability; Product Service Systems; ICT; SME; design; green operations; organizational transformation, jel: jel:Q, jel: jel:Q0, jel: jel:Q2, jel: jel:Q3, jel: jel:Q5, jel: jel:O13, jel: jel:Q56

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