A survey on sustainability in manufacturing organisations: dimensions and future insights

Abstract

Manufacturing organisations are facing the urge to adopt new strategies like sustainability to be able to respond to the market and customer's demand for sustainable products due to the scarcity of the natural resources or government policies. To serve this purpose, the main questions risen are 'How sustainability is defined through its dimensions?' and 'what subdimensions can denominate sustainable manufacturing?' Focusing on the questions, this study is cantered by a systematic literature review based on sustainability, its dimensions and sub-dimensions to investigate sustainability in manufacturing and the domains on which manufacturers can act on to be more 'sustainable'. Although the literature is more focused on the three traditional dimensions of sustainability namely: environmental, economic and social, a more detailed look through the dimensions is needed to help manufacturing organisations sketch their own sustainable strategies on more specific issues. The study of the dimensions led to a hierarchy of importance for the traditional three, in which environmental dimension of sustainability showed to be conspicuous. Therefore, the dimension was chosen for the further analysis conducted by Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) on its sub-dimensions to explore the trends in their combination by manufacturers while trying to reach sustainability.

Supply Chain Risk of Obsolescence at Simultaneous Robust Perturbations

“…Similar conclusions are also drawn from the works of Kovačić and Bogataj [24]. From the viewpoints of technology, some other dimensions of sustainability can also be evaluated, like energy, quality, and efficiency and other performance measures [17,20].…”

“…However, these three pillars are not the only components of supply chain sustainability. Eslami et al analysed how sustainability is defined through its nine dimensions, as recognised on the bases of the literature review [17]. One of the essential components is technology, being studied in many recently published papers [18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

“…From the Web of Science Core Collection, there are 71 papers indexed, where the intersection of topics-environment, sustainability, and net present value evaluation of investments-are studied, mainly in journals like Environmental Studies (17), Energy Fuels (11), Engineering Civil (10), Green Sustainable Science Technology (9), and Construction Building Technology (8). The first paper on the intersection of these three topics was published in 2002, but the yearly number of articles is growing rapidly and reached 11 contributions in 2018.…”

An Integrated DEMATEL-MMDE-ISM Approach for Analyzing Environmental Sustainability Indicators in MSMEs

“…When it comes to measuring sustainability implementation, Eslami et al, (2019) reported that environmental dimension is the one of the most targeted area by researchers among all three dimensions of sustainability. Material, water, energy and other resources utilized during the processes are some of the key areas of environmental performance.…”

Organizational Performance and Sustainability in Manufacturing and Service through TQM Implementation

“…Manufacturing and service organizations have taken a hypothetical shift towards sustainable practices in business production to overcome prevailing challenges. (Eslami et al, 2019) studied on achieving sustainability through a three-dimensional approach in manufacturing industries to understand the contribution of each dimension on sustainable ways of production. Literature studies described by Hassan & Kerr, 2003 concludes that quality practices implemented in service organizations are known to improve organizational performance bringing in productivity, increasing financial outputs, customer satisfaction by proper scheduling of deliveries in service sector H. Magd, H. Karyamsetty industries, results confirming to studies by (Prajogo & Brown, 2006;Lakhal, Passin, & Limam, 2006;Duarte et al, 2011).…”