Prioritizing Drivers for Green Manufacturing: Environmental, Social and Economic Perspectives

Abstract

The governments are under tremendous pressure to sustain manufacturing growth particularly in emerging and developing economies to improve quality of life of their citizen. Unfortunately, the manufacturing sector consumes lot of energy and other resources and emits large amounts of green house gases which increase environmental problems like climate change and global warming. One possible solution to this problem is green manufacturing (GM) implementation in industry. However, GM implementation faces many challenges. Government and industry should provide motivation to make this change possible. This paper aims at prioritizing these motivating factors based on fuzzy TOPSIS method using environmental, social and economic perspectives. The prioritization is vital for the emerging and developing economies because of the limited financial and other resources. The prioritization of GM drivers is expected to help the government and industry to focus on few vital drivers to facilitate the GM implementation.