This article has been retracted at the request of the editor. Reason: I was informed that the authors of the article that was to appear on the following pages made unauthorized use of the original thought and writings of: F. den Hond (1996), In search of a useful theory of environmental strategy: A case study on the recycling of end-of-life vehicles from the capabilities perspective, PhD-thesis, Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit (ISBN 90-9009717-1). Consequently, Technovation and Elsevier Science retracted this paper from these pages, and request that reference to this paper in abstract, indexing and citation databases be deleted. George Hayword, editor-in-chief of Technovation