Life Cycle Management

Bey, Niki

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56475-3_22

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“…However, the LCM perspective has been described as “going beyond the traditional focus on single production sites and manufacturing processes so to include environmental, social and economic impact of a product over its entire life cycle” (Remmen et al, 2007, p. 12; see also Bey, 2018). The idea is a holistic perspective on environmental management in the whole product life cycle (i.e., from raw material extraction through to product end-of-life), and a logic of minimizing the total environmental impact of a product, independent of the place of occurrence in the product chain (e.g., Baumann & Tillman, 2004; Hunkeler et al, 2003; Poikkimäki, 2006; Sonnemann, Gemechu, Remmen, Frydendal, & Jensen, 2015), while also ensuring the absence of suboptimizations (e.g., Baumann & Tillman, 2004; Bey, 2018; Welford, 2003). One, out of several definitions, propose LCM to be aproduct management system aiming to minimize environmental and socioeconomic burdens associated with an organization’s product or product portfolio during its entire life cycle and value chain.…”

Section: Lcm and Its Management In Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Life Cycle Practice

Lindén

Diedrich

Baumann

2020

Organization & Environment

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Life cycle management (LCM) is a concept that goes beyond traditional corporate environmental management, due to its focus on a product’s entire life cycle. The spread of such concepts is usually understood in terms of processes of “diffusion,” whereby ideas spread over time by some inexplicable force. However, diffusion has proven less adequate to describe how ideas spreads in practice. Here, we address this oversight by studying the emergence and performance of what we refer to as life cycle practices. Drawing on an analysis of the development of a sustainability portfolio within a globally operating manufacturing company, we illustrate the kinds of life cycle work involved in dealing with local activities and interests, connecting activities and interests into action nets, performing life cycle practices, and spreading the life cycle idea. Finally, we discuss implications of life cycle work for research in the field of organization and management studies and for LCM research.

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Section: Lcm and Its Management In Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Life Cycle Practice

Lindén

Diedrich

Baumann

2020

Organization & Environment

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“…Collaboration, as well as integration of LCM into all corporate functions, are therefore pointed out as important in the LCM literature (see, e.g. Bey, 2018;Fava, 1997;Hunkeler et al, 2003;Linnanen, 1995;Remmen et al, 2007;Sonnemann et al, 2015;Swarr & Fava, 2007). Also, top management support is considered key for LCM engagement (Balkau & Sonnemann, 2010;Broch, Warsen, & Krinke, 2015;Hunkeler et al, 2003;Remmen et al, 2007).…”

Section: Lcm-corporate-based and As Product Chain Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product chain collaboration for sustainability: A business case for life cycle management

2019

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Life cycle management (LCM) is frequently described as a holistic sustainability perspective along the product chain. It has mainly been a company internal practice. However, recent developments reveal a new type of LCM where companies collaborate in product‐chain‐specific initiatives. This raises questions concerning why corporations extend “corporate LCM” toward “product chain LCM”. Here, we explore rationales and challenges for corporations engaging in one such coalition: The Sustainable Transport Initiative. The study covers five companies in different product chain positions and practitioners in different corporate functions. The results show a broad range of rationales for engaging in product chain LCM, related both to self‐interest and a shared interest in the product chain. The importance of the “business case,” both for the individual companies and the product chain, is identified. The importance of sustainability managers as actors and as facilitators in discussions between managers from different corporate functions is also identified.

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“…Sometimes LCM is used by practitioners and academics alike synonymously with product lifecycle management (PLM) i.e., "the business activity of managing, in the most effective way, a company's products all the way across their life cycles" [37] or as Bey puts it "LCM can, with full legitimacy and good reasoning be practiced without a focus on environment and sustainability" [4]. Usually LCM is very closely related to PLM, thus including life spanning management, but a major drive is environmental and resource efficiency and effectiveness [3,38].…”

Section: Life Cycle Management As a Practice And Its Relation To Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an effort to meet "the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" [1] multiple concepts, tools, and methods focusing on different challenges have been developed for companies to implement. Life cycle management (LCM) is such an umbrella concept, often viewed as an aggregation of tools and methods knotted together by life cycle thinking and aiming to minimize the environmental impacts of products and/or services over their life cycle [2][3][4]. One of the tools in the LCM toolkit is life cycle costing (LCC), a method for calculating the costs over the life cycle of a product and/or service [3,5].…”

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Life Cycle Costing: Understanding How It Is Practised and Its Relationship to Life Cycle Management—A Case Study

Kambanou

2020

Sustainability

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Despite the existence of many life cycle costing (LCC) methods, LCC is not widely adopted and LCC methods are usually further tailored by practitioners. Moreover, little is known about how practising LCC improves life cycle management (LCM) especially if LCM is considered emergent and constantly developing. In a manufacturing company, LCC is prescriptively introduced to improve LCM. In the first part, this study describes how various methodological choices and other aspects of practising LCC were the outcome of contestation and conformity with extant practices and not only the best way to fulfil the LCC’s objective. This contestation can even influence if LCC is adopted. In the second part of the research, the implications of practising LCC on LCM are explored. LCC is found to positively propel LCM in many ways e.g., by spreading the life cycle idea, but may lead to a narrower understanding of the term life cycle resulting in the sustainability focus of LCM being overridden. The article also discusses how the findings can be taken into consideration when researchers develop LCC methods and when industry practises LCC.

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Life Cycle Management

Cited by 12 publications

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Life Cycle Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Life Cycle Practice

Life Cycle Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Life Cycle Practice

Product chain collaboration for sustainability: A business case for life cycle management

Life Cycle Costing: Understanding How It Is Practised and Its Relationship to Life Cycle Management—A Case Study

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