ENIVRONMENT ASIA

Volume 14, No. 01, Month JANUARY, Year 2021, Pages 93 - 105

Strategic implementation to enhance green industry practices in smes: lesson learned from thailand

Phurita Noranarttakun and Chanathip Pharino

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For decades, global communities focus on transforming into greener economy, particularly industrial sector. Several approaches have been executed to drive green industry policy. Green industry certifi cation scheme is among the voluntary measure widely adopted to endorse the entrepreneurs that successfully mitigate environmental impacts and enhance sustainable production. The scheme has a good progress in implementation in large conglomerates and international cooperation fi rms. However, adoption rate of green industry in Thailand particularly in SMEs is only 1.03% of the registered manufacturing sector SMEs in 2016. SMEs have potential high impacts according to the operational diversity and the proportion in the industrial sector. This study aims to identify strategic approaches to enhance green industry adoption in Thai SMEs. The study investigated the potentials and constraints for SMEs by SWOT analysis together with the data from the extensive review, in-depth interview, and questionnaire base survey. The result revealed that majority of SMEs have positive perception with green industry and express intention to adopt green industry. Although, SMEs’ capability in internal resource especially budget, green technology knowledge remains major weakness as well as absence of appropriate regulatory incentive. The key opportunity is arising from the global SDGs and the 20-year national strategy focusing on green economy and sustainable development. The future strategy recommendation for policy makers is to promote the implementation of economic based incentives including sustainable procurement, voluntary green product certifi cation scheme, together with pragmatic regulation mechanism i.e. green product law, product tax to close the gap of green industry practices implementation and sustainable growth for SMEs.

Keywords

Green industry; Green strategy; Small and medium enterprises; SWOT; Sustainable production

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