Classifying and studying environmental performance of manufacturing organizations evidence from Colombia

Changes in consumer behavior and the complexity of organizational decision-making, environmental regulations, policies are bases for transforming manufacturing processes to reduce usage natural resources impact. Traditional management methods limit corporate performance assessment. The study aims analyze 349 organizations terms their water, energy, hazardous non-hazardous waste. A descriptive correlational based on principal component analysis (PCA) cluster (CA) was used as methodological design. CA results showed that successful adoption sustainable production programs is associated with behavioral patterns regard performance. Six dimensions were identified through PCA, water resource being most prominent. Moreover, outsourcing waste critical improving