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Sustainability Through Eco-Design: Shedding Light on the Adoption of the ISO 14006 Standard

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Sustainable Operations Management

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The ISO 14006 ecodesign standard was created in 2011 with a view to complementing the successful ISO 14001 standard for company environmental management. Although there are a lot of works in literature on the subject that have analysed the adoption process for this last-mentioned standard, the former has not actually received so much attention. To try and make a contribution to special literature, the aim of this article is to carry out an exploratory analysis of how the ISO 14006 standard has been adopted and integrated within a series of Spanish companies that have been pioneers in doing so. After analysing the main motives that have led companies to adopt the ISO 14006 standard, the study then attempts to shed light on the impact of such adoption both on an operative level and in terms of company results. A series of conclusions are also gathered in this chapter that may be of interest both to companies and to other stakeholders.

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This article is a result of a Research Group funded by the Basque Autonomous Government (Grupos de Investigación del Sistema Universitario Vasco; GIC12/158 - IT763/13).

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, Alameda Urquijo S/N, 48013, Bilbao, Spain

    Beñat Landeta Manzano, Patxi Ruiz de Arbulo & Pablo Diaz de Basurto

  2. Politechnical School College, University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, Plaza Europa 1, 20018, San Sebastian, Spain

    Germán Arana-Landín

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Landeta Manzano, B., Arana-Landín, G., Ruiz de Arbulo, P., Diaz de Basurto, P. (2015). Sustainability Through Eco-Design: Shedding Light on the Adoption of the ISO 14006 Standard. In: Chiarini, A. (eds) Sustainable Operations Management. Measuring Operations Performance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14002-5_8

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