**2. Challenges in Selecting an Approach to the Organization's Performance Evaluation in Terms of Greenness: A Literature Review**

Various issues of organization's performance evaluation have been studied for several decades. It can be argued that the choice of an organization's performance evaluation system must be understood as an individual system formation for each organization [16–19]. Organizations can choose to develop their own individual performance evaluation systems or to adapt existing performance evaluation systems (models/methods). The scientific literature offers a wide variety of methods for evaluating an organization's performance. The analysis of these methods reveals that the authors of such works have identified many different objects of evaluation (see Table 1).

**Table 1.** The variety of methods for evaluating an organization's performance according to the objects of evaluation.


Source: compiled by the authors.

It should be noted that the performance of an organization can be evaluated according to various objects of evaluation, such as financial indicators, quality criteria, areas of activity, resources of an organization, supply chain, and management functions.

Depending on the exact objects of evaluation, the relevant instruments for evaluating an organization's performance are selected, which some authors refer to as methods and others as systems or models. In this research, the wording *organization's performance evalua-* *tion methods* has been chosen to refer to the instrument for evaluation of the performance of an organization. Ref. [18] distinguished four main groups of methods for evaluating the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: (1) Performance evaluation, where evaluation systems are created by adapting the performance evaluation systems of large companies; (2) Performance evaluation using integrated performance evaluation systems for small and medium-sized businesses; (3) Performance evaluation using models designed to analyze specific performance evaluation issues of small and medium-sized businesses, such as performance and customer orientation; (4) Performance evaluation using performance evaluation systems that are formed on the basis of scientific research. Within the framework of this research, the methods chosen to evaluate an organization's performance are based on scientific research.

It is noticed that performance of organizations is evaluated with more and more recent approaches, taking into account contemporary global and organizational development issues. For example, Ref. [20] suggested a performance evaluation which takes into account the impact of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, and cloud computing on an organization.

The scientific literature presents a wide range of methods for evaluating the performance of organizations, and in order to make an informed choice, it is necessary to determine the attributes of the analysis methods for evaluating the performance of an organization (see Table 2).


**Table 2.** Attributes of the analysis methods for evaluating an organization's performance.

Source: compiled by the authors. Attributes of the analysis methods for evaluating an organization's performance identified during the analysis of the scientific literature sources are marked in the table by "+".

During the analysis of the scientific literature, 12 attributes were identified, three of which may be considered more emphasized in the scientific literature than the others:



Considering the results of the analysis, it can be stated that the attributes of adaptability, complexity and measurability, which are mostly mentioned in the scientific literature, are the most suitable for assessment of organization's performance evaluation methods in order to choose the most suitable for the creation of the benchmark for the evaluation of the organization's performance in terms of greenness.
