This research focused on sustainable manufacturing capabilities . The proposed OSR model and associated tool aims to help companies assess their organisational readiness relating to specific capabilities to achieve sustainable manufacturing . The sustainable manufacturing capabilities shared by the case companies as well as the associated themes emerging from the empirical data analysis were already well - addressed in the literature published a decade ago ( e.g. , DeSimone and Popoff , 2000;Liyanage , 2007;Epstein et al . , 2010;Hart and Dowell , 2011 ) . Although the findings of this study did not uncover new capabilities or new themes , they are wellaligned with the literature , thus demonstrating good construct validity of the OSR model .