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.
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Organizations are struggling to survive in today's competitive market. They are mostly obliged to meet customers' expectations and demand for sustainable products from one side and comply with governmental rules and regulations regarding energy, resources, materials, etc. on the other side. Therefore, measuring their sustainability performance and trying to keep up with the competitors is essential for their future development. Consequently, organizations' perception of operational sustainability can reveal their strategies on how to be sustainable, endeavouring the three pillars of economic, environmental and social. The present work investigates the role of indicators' choice and their meaning for sustainability assessment of manufacturing organizations. To this point, an analysis is conducted on the sustainability assessment of 100 manufacturing organizations using GRI indicators for assessing their sustainability state. A Formal Concept Analysis was run to look over the indicators and their interpretations to reach a given degree of sustainability of the organization.
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