TY - JOUR
AU - Florida, Richard
AB - Lean and Green: THE MOVE TO ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS MANUFACTURING Richard Florida an corporate efforts to innovate and to adopt advanced technological and organizational approaches to manufacturing be used to achieve simultaneous gains in industrial and environmental performance? C The past few years have seen increasing interest in this question from a number of quarters. This article examines the relationship between advanced production practices and innovative approaches to environmentally conscious manufactur- ing. It argues that adoption of manufacturing process innovations creates incen- tives for adoption of environmentally conscious manufacturing strategies. To put it another way, firms that are innovative in terms of their manufacturing process are likely to be more imaginative in addressing environmental costs and risks. Furthermore, close relationships across the production chain and between end- users and suppliers facilitate the adoption of this bundle of environmental and industrial innovations. At bottom, adoption of advanced manufacturing systems creates substantial opportunity for adoption of green design and production strategies since both draw upon the same underlying principles—a dedication to productivity improvement, quality, cost reduction, continuous improvement, and technological innovation. Research funding was provided by grants from the National Science Foundation’s Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing Program and Division of Geography and Regional 
TI - Lean and Green: The Move to Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing
JF - California Management Review
DO - 10.2307/41165877
DA - 1996-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/lean-and-green-the-move-to-environmentally-conscious-manufacturing-M5SXPqIgJT
SP - 80
EP - 105
VL - 39
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -