...Mahdi Zarepour; Niloufar Hojat Shemami; Soroush Avakh Darestani Purpose In today’s world, one of the most important factors of the country’s economic development is improving the productivity of manufacturing industries. Identifying factors affecting the productivity of manufacturing industries...

...Līga Ozoliņa; Marika Rošā Purpose The purpose of this paper is to recognize whether consumers on long time perspective have an influence on the increase of energy efficiency in manufacturing industries. Design/methodology/approach Literature review, online survey, in‐depth interviews...

... and learning; and knowledge sharing, on sustainability of continuous improvement capabilities in the context of the manufacturing industries in Penang, Malaysia. The paper determines the impact of organizational self‐assessment towards the relationship of these six factors and sustainability of continuous...

... management Manufacturing industries Recycling Turkey Reverse logistics Solid wastes Treatment options Affecting characteristics The materials containing glass, metal, paper, or plastic contributes heavily to the solid waste stream and are allegeable to recycling. These materials can...

... and its suppliers as well as the possibility of measuring environmental performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Manufacturing industries Supply chain management International standards ISO 14001 Environmental performance of supply chain Green partner Sustainable supply...

... in 1990 and the time period 1995‐2009 is shown in Figure 1 . The four main manufacturing industries, where energy consumption is more than 10 per cent of total final energy consumed by the industrial sector in Latvia are: wood processing (37.7 per cent), metal production (19.2 per cent), food...

... questions of an environmental management survey that was carried out in the manufacturing industry in Chile in 2001. A large number of variables from the survey were involved and they are hard to handle in such disaggregated terms. The factor analysis (FA) methodology is thus applied to reduce...

... to improve the quality of life for the population. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Environmental management Business policy Brazil Competitive strategy Manufacturing industries Service industries The problem with environmental degradation has been one of the main issues both...