This study aims to develop a framework to understand the effect of sustainable
manufacturing (SM) adoption in Indian textile industries. The survey-based methodology has
been used to fulfill the objective of the study. Hence this study develops an instrument/
questionnaire construct on the most accepted principle of instrument design to assess the
various factors such as SMEs, SM barriers, solutions to overcome the barriers, and SM
performance factors through the responses collected from 64 Indian textile industries. These …