DOI: 10.4018/IJSDA.2019040101 International Journal of System Dynamics Applications Volume 8 • Issue 2 • April-June 2019 Copyright © 2019, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 1 Grey Based Decision Making for Evaluating Sustainable Performance of Indian Marble Industries Om Ji Shukla, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India Vishnu Jangid, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India Gunjan Soni, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India Rajesh Kumar, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India ABSTRACT This article focuses on the environmental, economic and social impact of marble industries in the north-western region of India. It presents a grey-based decision-making model for evaluating the extent of sustainability in three marble processing industries. The goal of this article is twofold. First, to identify the important criteria of sustainable performance in marble sector and second to compare three marble processing firms on the basis of sustainability criteria using grey based decision-making approach. A detailed questionnaire was sent to three marble processing firms and the analysis is done on the basis of the received responses. KEywoRDS Environment Safety, Grey Approach, Marble, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Sustainability INTRoDUCTIoN Sustainability is the view that social, economic and environmental concerns should be addressed simultaneously and holistically in the development process. Sustainability has been applied to many fields including engineering, manufacturing and design. Other than these fields, sustainability in food security system needs food security indicators to understand the interconnectedness in the system (Guma et al., 2018). Whereas for public transport routes, a decision-making system model focuses on environmental and societal sustainability aspects of green software engineering (Spichkova and Hamilton, 2016). Manufacturers are becoming increasingly concerned about the issue of sustainability. For instance, recognition of the relationship between manufacturing operations and the natural environment has become an important criterion in the decision making among industrial societies. Currently the world is facing severe problems like rapid depletion of natural resources and undesired environmental changes on a global scale. To counter these threats the only solution available is the adoption of sustainability concepts such as recycling, reusing, reducing wastes and society accountability etc. The concept of sustainability has become very crucial in present time for most of the manufacturing and processing firms due to ever increasing industrialisation which has increased exploitation level of natural resources. This exploitation level has come to a very serious situation along with different types of risks i.e. the risk of health and safety for workers and economic health