An assessment of green practices in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) using Graph-Theoretic Matrix Approach

Abstract

The main purpose of the paper is to evaluate the green practices in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The growth and sustainability-related issues are equally important for SMEs as well as for multinational companies. Multinational companies have sufficient exposure to the international norms of environmental management and they are bound to follow them. Due to ignorance attitude and lack of information and resources, SMEs are less interested in green manufacturing. Thus, the assessment of the green practices of SMEs becomes very important in the present context.  In this study, some of the major factors related to green manufacturing have been identified through the literature review. The green index is produced using the permanent matrix of all the factors using the Graph Theory Matrix Approach. It may be used to compare the green performance of one SME with another.