An environmental-oriented perspective to production

Abstract

The natural environment and manufacturing are becoming inextricably linked. Factors such as scare resources, changing customer expectations, legal obligations, environmental social movements led to the transformation of traditional production perspective based on cost effective value. Businesses started to develop their manufacturing activities through ecological value by their environmental practices along with maximizing their profitibility. The environmental-oriented pro-duction is at the more on focus. Environmental responsibilities and consequences linked to these are assessed as important performance indicators besides productivity and profitibality variables. Nowadays businesses realized that the production of ecological value turning into economical val-ue eventually. Businesses have to integrate their production management decisions and environ-ment management principles in order to accomplish environmental production systems in the structure that the pressure groups such as stakeholders, colleaques and legislative regulations play a part. In this study; production activities were evaluated in terms of environment-oriented per-spective. Study has been viewed in title; development process of environmental management, driv-ing forces of proactive environmental management, business and environmental interactions, envi-ronmental practices of the production function and environmental performance.