Organizational adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices in India: integrating institutional theory and corporate environmental responsibility

ABSTRACT

Organizations are increasingly engaging in socially and environmentally sustainable initiatives. This paper focuses on the institutional isomorphism mechanisms to analyse the organizational adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices like eco-design, source reduction, and environmental management practices. This paper empirically examines the role of institutional influence in the organizational adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices among firms in India. The results of this study confirm the significance of the three institutional isomorphism mechanisms in influencing sustainable responses, but not all mechanisms influence the organizational response equally. In particular, the results show a strong influence of self-regulatory normative isomorphism on the implementation.

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainable operations
• institutional theory
• emerging economies
• survey research
• structural equation modelling

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