Abstract
Interviews surveys were conducted with 9 large-scale manufacturing and production establishments operating in Kawasaki, one of the largest industrial areas of Japan, in order to identify factors affecting corporate resource circulation and environmental behavior. This paper identified that resource circulation and various environmental practices were actively operated within each establishment while, on the contrary, those which need corporation with other establishments and consumers were not actively taken place. Our results suggest that cooperation among establishments might be enhanced by economic supports for cost reduction and economic viability, which presumably would foster the practice of green procurement and, in the end, would spread to practices of eco-design, cooperation with consumers and investment recovery
