TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable new product development
T2 - a longitudinal review
AU - Thomé, Antônio Márcio Tavares
AU - Scavarda, Annibal
AU - Ceryno, Paula Santos
AU - Remmen, Arne
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Traditional new product development aims to integrate people, tools, and technology to shorten time-to-market and boost economic gains. Under the triple bottom line of sustainability, the integration with the environment brings an additional layer of complexity. Sustainable new product development (SNPD) is a new and ever-growing research area. This paper offers a novel combination of systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of themes in SNPD in the past 25 years. The search for the relevant literature in Scopus citation database returned 1541 peer-reviewed papers. The analysis of co-occurrence of keywords identified the main themes of product life cycle, product design, sustainable products, production and environmental standards, innovation, human component of sustainability, supply chains, polymer, and renewable resource. Concerns with economic and environmental sustainability were present since the early research on SNPD. However, there is a growing concern with a holistic approach to SNDP integrating people, the economy, and the planet. The evolution of themes showed a need to integrate further the social aspects of sustainability into SNDP. A research agenda closes the paper proposing themes that deserve further scrutiny, related to sustainable products, product life cycle, and product design.
AB - Traditional new product development aims to integrate people, tools, and technology to shorten time-to-market and boost economic gains. Under the triple bottom line of sustainability, the integration with the environment brings an additional layer of complexity. Sustainable new product development (SNPD) is a new and ever-growing research area. This paper offers a novel combination of systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of themes in SNPD in the past 25 years. The search for the relevant literature in Scopus citation database returned 1541 peer-reviewed papers. The analysis of co-occurrence of keywords identified the main themes of product life cycle, product design, sustainable products, production and environmental standards, innovation, human component of sustainability, supply chains, polymer, and renewable resource. Concerns with economic and environmental sustainability were present since the early research on SNPD. However, there is a growing concern with a holistic approach to SNDP integrating people, the economy, and the planet. The evolution of themes showed a need to integrate further the social aspects of sustainability into SNDP. A research agenda closes the paper proposing themes that deserve further scrutiny, related to sustainable products, product life cycle, and product design.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Co-word analysis
KW - Design for the environment
KW - Product life cycle
KW - Systematic literature review
KW - Triple bottom line sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961621667&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10098-016-1166-3
DO - 10.1007/s10098-016-1166-3
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84961621667
SN - 1618-954X
VL - 18
SP - 2195
EP - 2208
JO - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
JF - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
IS - 7
ER -