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Article
| Greener Management International: The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice
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summer 2004
Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience
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Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill
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Abstract
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a sustainability management system (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification by a third-party certification organisation.
Keywords: Design;
Governance Compliance;
Management Practices and Processes;
Standards;
Environmental Sustainability;
Auto Industry;
United States;