Competitive Priorities and Lean–Green Practices—A Comparative Study in the Automotive Chain’ Suppliers

For organizations to remain competitive, they must now adapt sustainability requirements, which have become performance criteria for supplier selection most original Equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In this sense, environmental is included as a competitive priority throughout the supply chain. Therefore, study aims verify, through two case studies, priorities of first-tier suppliers from automotive chain that adopted lean and green practices. The findings show quality main source advantage focus operations are analyzed here, while not considered important by companies. However, it still priority. Furthermore, demonstrated practices could generate compatibility priority, even indirectly, trade-offs can arise between priorities. integration facilitate inclusion into strategy management systems.