Abstract
Legal regulations enforce the companies to search for the ways to reuse their end-of-use or end-of-life products. Additionally, more and more companies start to perceive the closing of the life cycles loops as an additional area of income. Remanufacturing facilitates multiple usage of the value-added from new production by several life cycles. It helps to reduce work effort and energy and it has big potential for cost savings. There is a research gap regarding the assessment of remanufacturing operational excellence. The application of the principles of sustainable development in everyday business operations is problematic, as there is a lack of the clearly defined sustainability indicators, which might be used in the assessment of remanufacturing activities. The majority of the companies which are involved in the remanufacturing operations are small and medium sized (SME). Very often operations in these companies are organized by rule-of-thumbs. The aim of this chapter is to provide sustainability assessment framework so called Sustainability Indicators System for Remanufacturing (SISR) based on the literature review and remanufacturing process characteristics revealed from case studies.
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According to Freeman (1984) stakeholders are “any group or individual that can affect or be affected by the realisation of a company’s objectives.”
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The European Commission defines CSR as “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis” (2001).
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This chapter refers to the research financed by the Narodowe Centrum Badan i Rozwoju NCBiR (National Centre for Research and Development) in the framework of the German-Polish cooperation for sustainable development, project “Sustainability in remanufacturing operations (SIRO)”, grant no WPN/2/2012.
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Golinska-Dawson, P., Kosacka, M., Werner-Lewandowska, K. (2018). Sustainability Indicators System for Remanufacturing. In: Golinska-Dawson, P., Kübler, F. (eds) Sustainability in Remanufacturing Operations. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60355-1_7
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