Enablers and Barriers of Sustainable Manufacturing: Results from a Survey of Researchers and Industry Professionals

Sustainable Manufacturing (SM) has gained significant importance in today's competitive environment as many organizations still depend on natural resources and at the same time generate wastes and environmental pollution. However, the adoption of SM is a huge challenge for organizations since most of them are not aware on how to utilize the enablers and mitigate the effect of barriers of SM. This paper tends to present the opinions of various researchers around the globe and industry professionals on the important enablers and barriers and analyze them using statistical techniques to highlight the differences in opinions for strategic implementation of SM. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.