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Summaries of the case studies

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This chapter contains elaborate summaries of the 15 company-based case studies, which follow a common content. The following companies were involved (some of them wished to be reported anonymously): Philips Deutschland’s glass factory; Sony Deutschland; IBM Germany; Favini Cartiera; SGS-Thomson; Italiana Petroli; AGIP; a producer of bed furniture; two sites of a chemical company; Xerox in Venray; Meerssen Papier, Baxter’s health care plant in Castlebar, Xerox in the UK, Zeneca’s Huddersfield site, an electronics company in the UK.

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Wind, M. et al. (1999). Summaries of the case studies. In: Eco-Management Accounting. Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1354-2_4

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