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Awareness of sustainability in manufacturing enterprises is considered a major objective in sustainability practices and implementation. Awareness arises by stakeholders defining, analyzing, and assessing enterprises. These stakeholders are managers in manufacturing enterprises and departments in governments, the public, and academics in higher education. An assessment was developed in order to test the theoretical concepts related to sustainability, and its applicability was directly tested in two small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). Two case studies are used to illustrate the proposed approach of estimating the degree of awareness for each type of sustainability, and a new assessment approach is used as a template to assess the current status of sustainability awareness in manufacturing enterprises.
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Garbie, I. (2016). Sustainability Awareness. In: Sustainability in Manufacturing Enterprises. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29306-6_12
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