Operations Management Challenges for Some Cleantech Firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Plambeck, Erica L.
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1523-4614
• DOI: 10.1287/msom.2013.0455
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 527-536
• 关键词: environment; energy; Process innovation; Supply chain management; CAPACITY INVESTMENT; bankruptcy; public policy

摘要

A cleantech firm is one with an innovative technology and/or business model for serving an existing market with dramatically reduced environmental impact. This paper describes operations management (OM) challenges faced by five cleantech companies, and a few questions that these raise for OM and multidisciplinary research. It aims to fuel readers' motivation to identify and pursue others. The OM community has fundamental roles to play in the creation of an environmentally sustainable economy.