Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Publication Date
2-1-2020
Abstract
© 2020 by the authors. The current rapidly changing and highly competitive market has put companies under a great pressure towards adopting sustainable practices, in terms of keeping a healthy balance among economic, environmental and social performances. In this context, the lean-green manufacturing approach, which combines lean practices focused on customers' demand, and green practices focused on reducing the business' environmental impact, has gained popularity. Nevertheless, the lean-green manufacturing is still a relatively new practice, lacking a clear and structured research definition, and of significant evidence of successful cases in the practice. In this paper, a literature review is conducted to identify the actual possibility of combining lean and green practices, the current trends for implementing such combination and the potential sustainability improvements such implementation can lead. It is the authors' intention that the findings analysed in this paper can contribute to the state-of-the-art of lean-green manufacturing and provide practitioners with a useful tool towards developing effective strategies for its deployment.
DOI Link
ISSN
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
12
Issue
3
Disciplines
Education | Environmental Sciences
Keywords
environmental impact, literature review, manufacturing, sustainability
Scopus ID
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Abualfaraa, Wadhah; Salonitis, Konstantinos; Al-Ashaab, Ahmed; and Ala'raj, Maher, "Lean-green manufacturing practices and their link with sustainability: A critical review" (2020). All Works. 2227.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/2227
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series