Mohit Saxena and Nitin Seth
Managing sustainability implementation in automotive environment and firm performance (FP) has always been an area of Interest for professionals & researchers. Accomplishing Sustainability Implementation in automotive context is very difficult and seeks to consider attention of suppliers, top management, dealers, government, regulators, and stakeholders. It is prudent that the Sustainability Implementation & FP is regularly assessed, supervised, and improved for gaining competitiveness & status for creating a point of differentiation. This paper tries to identify such Sustainability Implementation & FP criteria for Indian automotive industry. This study implemented Delphi approach through interview with 32 subject specialists. In this a list of 35 environmental,48 social, 33 economical sub- measures and 45 performance sub- measures identified from the literature was given to these experts from which initial measures and their sub – measures were to be identified and grouped for automotive sector. These Sustainability Implementation factors can additionally be utilized to design a model to apply Sustainability practices in auto industry. This study employs the Delphi approach to analyze and examine Sustainability Implementation ideas and Firm Performance factors for Indian automotive sector.