Green production adoption for small- and medium-sized enterprises in China: a case study

Eco-friendly and sustainable development is constantly explored and intensely studied in recent years in business sector and academia. Many enterprises are seeking to adopt green production (GP) while researchers are investigating the practice from various perspectives. Although GP has been advocated and implemented in the developed countries for more than two decades, it is still primitive in development in China. Through an in-depth investigation of the GP initiative taken by a small garment manufacturing company in Shanghai, this study explored the drivers for and the barriers to GP adoption from the perspective of the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and proposed a model for gradual implementation.