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  • summer 2004
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  • Greener Management International: The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice

Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: 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

Citation

McElhaney, Kellie, Michael W. Toffel, and Natalie Hill. "Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience." Greener Management International: The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice 46 (summer 2004): 103–116.
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Michael W. Toffel

Technology and Operations Management
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