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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool for business strategy

Independent Journal of Management & Production

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Title Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool for business strategy
 
Creator Salvador, Rodrigo
Francisco, Antonio Carlos
Piekarski, Cassiano Moro
Mendes Luz, Leila
 
Subject Production Engineering; Strategic Planning; Environmental Management; Sustainability
Environmental Strategic Planning; LCA; Life Cycle Assessment.
 
Description The growing concern about the development of sustainable production systems leads organizations to seek the support of management tools for decision-making. Considering the whole life cycle of the product, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has an important role in this scenario. The objective of this paper is to present, through the theoretical discussion, the role of LCA in strategic planning of the organization. It showed the enormous potential for decision making on the environmental aspect, but also the critical factor in the development shares in the competitive context. The use of LCA can reduce the environmental impacts of the system under study (primary purpose) and guide the range of advantages in the fields of marketing, legislation and environmental labeling, competitive strategies, efficiency use of resources and others.
 
Publisher Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
 
Contributor Fundação Araucária
CAPES/CNPq
 
Date 2014-09-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/186
10.14807/ijmp.v5i3.186
 
Source Independent Journal of Management & Production; Vol 5, No 3 (2014): Independent Journal of Management & Production; 733-751
2236-269X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/186/127
http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/186/408