Title: Sustainability in Indian manufacturing sector: an empirical study on challenges

Authors: Biswajit Mohapatra; Aneesh Kuruvilla; Deepak Singhal; Sushanta Tripathy

Addresses: School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India ' School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India ' School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India ' School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India

Abstract: Sustainability is an inexorably pertinent issue in all nations for building a cleaner, greener and prosperous industry around the globe. The concerned research is to build a model delineating the factors affecting sustainability and their degree of hindrance in the Indian industrial paradigm. The authors, through extensive literature review and expert opinions, have identified the factors affecting sustainability in India and then have attempted to structure a model by taking the seven major factors as constructs to the central construct called sustainability challenges. The degree of hindrance has been elucidated in the model and suitable inferences having a high future impact are drawn as a consequence of this rigorous effort. The multivariate statistical analysis method of structural equation modelling (SEM) has been utilised to capture the solution of the problem. The results of the research have a meaningful set of insights about the Indian chapter of sustainability in industries.

Keywords: sustainability; challenges; structural equation modelling; SEM; manufacturing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2023.129133

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2023 Vol.43 No.3, pp.281 - 300

Received: 29 Jun 2020
Accepted: 26 Mar 2021
Published online: 22 Feb 2023 *

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