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The role and position of the manufacturing sector changes over time. Its importance in the sustainable growth of the economy, innovations, trade, reducing energy demand, and environmental problems is currently being shown again. The study underlines...

Since the 1990s, CO2 emissions have increased steadily in line with the growth of production and the use of energy in the manufacturing sector in Thailand. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Method is used for analysing the sources of changes in CO2...

Strategic risk management impacts organizations’ competitive advantage; it is an opportunity for growth, anticipation, and sustainability. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are significantly exposed to these risks and are a fundamental...

In recent decades, Peru’s manufacturing sector has steadily declined in its share of gross domestic product, despite sustained economic growth and repeated improvements in the terms of trade. This study investigates whether this divergence betw...

Operating a business in the context of current environmental challenges requires managers to shift away from the management model focused solely on the achievement of economic goals. In this situation, pro-ecological (green) initiatives, in particula...

(1) Background: comprehending market concentration and its implications is one of the most crucial aspects of studying and evaluating competition issues, and this is gaining increasing attention in companies’ sustainability research. Sustainabi...

We employ a recent empirical strategy to estimate country-specific and time-varying total factor productivity (TFP) levels for the manufacturing sector of 63 countries over 40 years. The methodology is based on estimated country-specific production f...

This article presents an estimation of a stochastic frontier model using a translogarithmic production function to identify the impact of production factors—labor and capital—along with CO2 emissions and technical progress on the value ad...

Sustainability concerns are rising as an interesting topic in both academia and industry. Many scholars revealed that green innovation is an excellent solution to enable organizations to achieve various benefits, such as enhancing their reputation an...

The manufacturing sector (MS) is considered one of the most important national economic sectors; therefore, global manufacturers strive to apply cutting-edge technologies to gain competitive advantages. The Internet of Things (IoT) has an inherent po...

The growing demand for transparency in sustainability reporting has compelled enterprises to look far beyond the boundaries of classical financial ratios when assessing their own performance. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators hav...

Business confidence can be a very important predictor of future development and sustainability in a selected industry. It is one of the economic sentiment indicators belonging to the most important indicators of the health of the economy. This paper...

As the world’s largest developing country, and as the home to many of the world’s factories, China plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of the world economy regarding environmental protection, energy conservation, and emission reductio...

Given that energy is a significant input factor for modern economic growth, which has also brought the most severe negative externalities damage to the environment, improving energy efficiency is considered critical globally. As a large energy produc...

Achieving sustainable development goals remains a core issue in global development. In response, China has proposed the development of new quality productive forces (NQPFs) through innovative thinking, emphasizing that fostering NQPFs is both an intr...

Micro and large-sized enterprises are important elements to enhance the economic growth of any country, and even more so for developing countries such as Mexico. These enterprises highly contribute to job generation, competitiveness, and gross domest...

The present research aims to analyze the efficiency of human capital in relation to sales in each of the subsectors of economic activity within Mexican small- and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry. To accomplish this, a panel dat...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) are the activities of firms that are not only considered for economic profit but also include the social welfare returns. To find the key drivers that affect the relationship between corporate social responsibili...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is transforming healthcare by facilitating the production of highly customized medical devices and equipment. This review systematically examines various AM technologies, including stereolithography, selective laser sinter...

In this research, the primary goal was to investigate the relationship between strategic planning and organizational performance in Iraq’s manufacturing context. This study’s primary data sources were 360 manager respondents. A structured...

The current great expansion of automation and robotics affects a multiplicity of various fields. A prominent example is industry, where the different manufacturing processes and technologies embrace a certain level of automation and robotics. Thus, t...

The path of exploring the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry has become one of the focus issues in China. In terms of experience, the impact of service sector growth on the quality of China’s manufacturing industry is unclea...

One of the remaining challenges in explaining differences in total factor productivity is heterogeneity between sectors and within a specific sector in terms of labor and capital. This paper employs the generalized method of moments (GMM) to identify...

With vast potentials in improving operations and stimulating growth, digital transformation has aroused much attention from firms across the world. However, the high costs associated with the transformation can not be ignored. Limited research has lo...

Workplace bullying is a critical concern in high-risk sectors such as construction and manufacturing, where high-pressure environments, strict deadlines, and hierarchical structures may intensify the problem. Despite its serious impact on workers&rsq...

The purpose of the current research study was to evaluate the effect of innovation on sustainability along with the mediating role of top management support and the moderating role of Industry 4.0 between innovation and sustainability. The data were...

Background: Our day-to-day commodities truly depend on the industrial sector, which is expanding at a rapid rate along with the growing population. The production of goods needs to be accurate and rapid. Thus, for the present research, we have incorp...

The globe has been subjected to an unprecedented health challenge in the form of COVID-19, indiscriminately impacting the global economy, global supply chains, and nations. The resolution of this unprecedented challenge does not seem to be in the sho...

In this study we explored the challenges involved in Lean Transformation and implementation in the manufacturing sector. Using survey data from 50 North American manufacturing organizations, we examined the challenges involved in implementing and sus...

The rapid penetration of digital technologies into the manufacturing sector has profoundly impacted the development of China’s manufacturing industry. This study aims to explore the role of the digital economy (DE) in promoting high-quality dev...

Electricity is a crucial input to the industrial production of South Korea. Estimating the demand function for electricity in the manufacturing sector is an important task because electricity consumption in the manufacturing sector accounts for 56.3%...

Heat is a crucial input supplied in the form of steam or hot water to industrial production of South Korea. Estimating the demand function for heat in the manufacturing sector is all the more important a task in terms of policy because heat consumpti...

This study analyzes the changes in energy consumption of the Korean manufacturing sector using the index decomposition analysis (IDA) method. To capture the production effect based on actual physical activities, we applied the activity revaluation (A...

Based on the Tapio decoupling model, this paper discusses the decoupling relationship between the economic growth and carbon emissions of the manufacturing sector in southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu and middle Jiangsu during the 13th Five-Year-Plan...

As sustainability becomes a strategic imperative in the manufacturing sector, firms are increasingly adopting green environmental practices to enhance their competitive advantage and long-term viability. This study investigates the influence of an In...

Market competition drives organizations to higher efficiency. This paper analyses the relationship between the prevailing organization’s market orientation and marketing innovation activities. The sample of organizations consists of business en...

This study aims to examine the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the manufacturing sector in Indonesia, one of the largest contributors of carbon emissions. This sector needs to implement sustainability as outlined in SDG 9: S...

The main objective of this research is to identify current trends in Industry 4.0 within the manufacturing sector through bibliometrics. A dataset of 1069 documents from 2020 to 2024 obtained from the Web of Science is processed. Using the R-Bibliome...

The energy consumption of Korea’s manufacturing sector has sharply increased over the past 20 years. This paper decomposes the factors influencing energy consumption in this sector using the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method and analyzes t...

The study estimates the impact of cluster commercial credit on manufacturing total factor productivity from the perspective of county-level clusters. The data were collected from 1998 to 2015 from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database. Various e...

The ecological transformation of industrial enterprises is crucial for promoting sustainable development, improving energy efficiency, and boosting environmental quality. This study provides empirical insights into the relationship between digital co...

This paper investigates how gamification in the workplace has developed from 2016 to 2023 in the production sector and what ethical safeguards have been adopted. The paper presents a state-of-the-art Systematic Literature Review (SRL) performed in th...

This work explores the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to reprocess recycled glass and carbon fibers in the automotive sector. It aims to foster exploitation of recycled Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (rGFRPs) and recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced...

Understanding the asymmetric relationship between manufacturing output and non-renewable energy consumption is critical for formulating sustainable economic policies, particularly in energy-dependent economies like Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study has...

Wire harness manufacturing in the aeronautic sector is highly manual work, with production defined by multiple references and small batches. Although complete automation of the production process is not feasible, a robot-assisted approach could incre...

This paper examines the effect of financial inclusion on the firm growth of the manufacturing sector (513 firms) in selected ASEAN countries (Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam) using a cross-section threshold estimation technique. The levels of fina...

(1) Background: This study investigates the impact of Quality Culture (QC) and Quality Management (QM) on Organizational Performance (OP) in the manufacturing sector, emphasizing their role in driving sustainability and competitiveness. (2) Methods:...

This article aims to review the industrial applications of AI-based intelligent system algorithms in the manufacturing sector to find the latest methods used for sustainability and optimisation. In contrast to previous review articles that broadly su...

With global supply chains being reshaped and costs surging, China’s manufacturing sector faces mounting pressure to retain its position as the world’s largest manufacturing center. Meeting this challenge demands the full mobilization of d...

The advent of modern digital technologies offers new opportunities to improve the performance of manufacturing systems from design to monitoring and control during operation. At the same time, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragilit...