Although environmental collaboration has emerged as a critical strategy for enhancing sustainability performance in the manufacturing industry, the influencing factors, specific practices, and its relationship with sustainability performance remain unclear. This study conducts a comprehensive literature review using a content-analysis approach to examine the factors influencing environmental collaboration, its the specific practices, and its relationship with sustainability performance. Drawing from an extensive analysis of publications from 2004 to 2024, this research identify the key success factors and practices for effective environmental collaboration and relationship between environmental collaboration and sustainability performance. The findings reveal nine multifaceted and interconnected factors that contribute to contributing to advancement of environmental collaboration. Moreover, key practices of environmental collaboration with suppliers and customers mainly involves jointly setting sustainability goals, promoting green production and packaging, managing waste and take-back initiatives, and cooperating on environmental knowledge sharing and compliance. Furthermore, this study suggests that environmental collaboration directly impacts sustainability performance. By identifying these, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental collaboration and its impact on sustainability performance in the manufacturing industry. Additionally, this study provides a path for future research. JEL Codes: Keywords: Environmental collaboration, sustainability performance, manufacturing industry, supply chain partner.
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