Drivers and motives for sustainable manufacturing system

Abstract

Due to rapid industrialization and economic growth, sustainability and environmental concerns are becoming the most prominent for preserving natural resources, and biodiversity. The sustainable manufacturing system is receiving significant attention in manufacturing organizations to improve organizational sustainability performance. Policymakers, organizations, and Government are continuously making efforts to drive organizations toward a sustainable manufacturing system. Various work has been done the sustainable manufacturing drivers. It has been observed that there is still a research gap between the sustainable manufacturing drivers and motives from the organization's perspective. The objective of this study is to identify the various drivers and motives for the sustainable manufacturing system. A systematic literature review of Web of Science and Google Scholar database is carried out. A total of 181 papers and 101 papers respectively, from the timeframe 1987 to 2021, were reviewed to identify the drivers and motives for the sustainable manufacturing system. The study also suggests a performance evaluation model for evaluating the sustainability performance of the organization, and a performance evaluation framework to strategically benchmark the sustainable manufacturing practices with the other organizations, and continuously improve the organization's sustainability gain through the incremental change opportunities identified through the holistic system thinking.