Industry-specific sustainability priorities in new product development: Evidence from automotive and chemical industries
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, cilt.580, sa.149626, ss.1-17, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 580 Sayı: 149626
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Engineering Source (EBSCO), Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Chimica, Compendex, INSPEC, Public Affairs Index
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-17
- İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Sustainable new product development requires firms to evaluate product-development options by considering financial, market, product environmental, process environmental and social criteria together. However, the sustainability priorities guiding such decisions may differ across industries because product characteristics, production processes, regulatory exposure and end-of-life conditions are not the same. This study examines how cleaner production-related sustainability priorities shape product-development option prioritization in the automotive and chemical industries. Data were collected from certified industrial R&D professionals and product-development decision makers in Türkiye. A fuzzy multi-criteria decision-support procedure was used to derive sector-specific criterion weights, evaluate real product-development options and aggregate methodspecific rankings. The results reveal distinct priority structures. In the automotive application, financial criteria received the highest priority, followed by product environmental and process environmental criteria. In the chemical application, process environmental and product environmental criteria dominated the priority structure, reflecting stronger emphasis on material, recyclability, waste, water, energy and production-related environmental concerns. At the option level, the electric high-passenger-capacity urban bus ranked first in the automotive case, while the 100% recyclable metallocene polyolefin-based packaging film ranked first in the chemical case. These leading options remained stable across sensitivity scenarios. The study contributes to cleaner production-oriented decision making by showing how sector-specific sustainability priorities are trans lated into product-development option prioritization. The findings should be interpreted as expert-based deci sion-support results from selected automotive and chemical R&D contexts rather than as direct measurements of product sustainability performance