**4. Selection of Organization's Performance Analysis Approaches Suitable for Creating a Green Organization Benchmark**

To clarify which approach to an organization's performance evaluation is suitable for the analysis of the organization's performance from the aspect of greenness, a selection of scientific literature was carried out for further content analysis. The scientific literature sources were selected in the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics database according to the search criteria: "green organization" (All fields) or "green organisation" (All fields) or "green company" (All fields), and "performance" (All fields). According to these search criteria, 60 sources of scientific literature were found. After narrowing down the search to only literature sources attributable to the categories of social sciences (Web of Science Categories: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary or Management or Business or Economics), 17 articles were selected for further analysis, 12 of which met the following criteria set for the documents selected for content analysis: authenticity, representativeness, meaningfulness, completeness, and reliability. After analyzing the content of all 12 selected articles according to the selected topic indicator, the obtained results were processed distinguishing the common characteristics of the *topic*, which can be attributed to the possible methods of evaluating an organization's performance (see Table 3).


**Table 3.** Determining the suitable approaches to analyzing a green organization's performance.

Source: compiled by the authors. Possible methods of evaluating an organization's performance according to the results of conducted content analysis of each selected scientific literature source are marked in the table by "+".

Based on the results of the analysis, the following three approaches to evaluating an organization's performance related to the purpose of the research were determined: resources of an organization (adopting a resource-based view), value chain, management functions. General topics that did not fit into any or fit all of the sections of the organization's performance evaluation were assigned "Other" (for example, market efficiency, workplace design, job satisfaction, and others) and were not considered during further analysis. For a

deeper analysis of the suitability for the development of a green organization benchmark, the three mentioned approaches to an organization's performance evaluation were selected for examination according to the defined attributes.
