The evaluation of green manufacturing strategies adopted by ISO 14001 certificate holders in Jordan

Abstract

The aim of this study is evaluating the performance of green manufacturing strategies adopted by ISO 14001 certificate holders in Jordan. The survey questionnaire was developed based on the literature and interviews with industry experts and academics, 27 manufacturing organisations were surveyed. K-mean clustering analysis was used to cluster the manufacturing organisations to green manufacturing strategic groups. Also, perfect matching analysis was used to trace the relationship between performance indicators and green actions. This study revealed that; there are three significant clusters of green manufacturing strategies: agile environment, caretaker environment and lean environment. The performance of agile strategic group is high to moderate; however, the performance of caretaker and lean is moderate to low. Different combinations of perfect matched green actions with performance indicators were adopted by each strategic group. This is the first study which reports the green manufacturing strategic patterns in Middle East, the majority of previous studies have not addressed the significant actions and performance indicators in details, the majority of previous studies have not clustered or grouped the manufacturing firms based on green key performance indicators.

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“…According to these studies, manufacturing organisations may be classified into three different strategic groups: an agile environment strategy, a caretaker environment strategy and a lean environment strategy. The performance of the agile strategic group is high to moderate; however, the performance of the other two groups is moderate to low (Migdadi and Elzzqaibeh, 2018). These strategic groups adopt different best practice: the first (agile) was the best in terms of solid waste management, and the second (caretaker) was the best in terms of managing hazardous material, but the third strategic group (lean) was best in dealing with both hazardous material and managing solid waste (Migdadi, 2016).…”

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