Title: Sustainability reports: a thematic analysis related to sustainability factors - manufacturing perspective

Authors: Savita Sodhi; Anupam Ghosh

Addresses: Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand 835215, India ' Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand 835215, India

Abstract: Globally many industries have realised the importance of sustainability and sustainable development. Nowadays problems that are caused by the manufactured products have compelled organisation to take the mandatory initiatives on triple bottom line. The sustainability approach shall be imbibed in the life cycle of the product to manufacture a sustainable product. Incorporation of sustainability factors not only leads to sustainable manufacturing but also leads to the improvement and development of sustainable product life cycle approach. The improvement in the sustainability factors will help manufacturing companies to draw a new perspective in achieving sustainable product life cycle approach during manufacturing (B2B). This further will make new pathways to establish relationship between various processes/systems at the manufacturing end, dealers, vendors, user end, etc., to make the business journey more sustainably profitable. The present research conducted helps the manufacturing senior management to develop policies to promote and to take care of the sustainability factors from product life cycle aspect.

Keywords: sustainability; product life cycle; manufacturing; sustainable product life cycle; thematic analysis; sustainability reports.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2023.133151

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2023 Vol.15 No.2, pp.149 - 181

Received: 26 Apr 2022
Accepted: 10 Jun 2022
Published online: 01 Sep 2023 *

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