**5. Identification of the Most Suitable Approach to Evaluating Performance of an Organization for the Creation of a Green Organization Benchmark**

Table 10 presents a comparison of the suitability assessment results of the analyzed approaches to choose the most suitable approach to evaluating an organization's performance for the development of a green organization benchmark (see Table 10).

**Table 10.** Comparison of the analyzed approaches in terms of their suitability for the development of a green organization benchmark.


Source: compiled by the authors. Suitability for the development of a green organization benchmark of each analyzed approach is marked by + (suitable) or +/− (partially suitable).

Taking into account the identified advantages and disadvantages of an organization's performance evaluation approaches, it can be said that the most suitable option for creating a green organization benchmark is the approach of resources of an organization since this approach corresponds to the attributes of adaptability and measurability more than others. However, when applying an approach of the resources of an organization to creating a green organization benchmark, it was observed that this approach only partially corresponds to the attribute of complexity. Therefore, in order to address the attribute of complexity, it is suggested that the creation of a green organization benchmark based on the resources of an organization should be supplemented with an assessment of the impact of external environmental factors on the organization's activity, i.e., it is appropriate to include an assessment of the impact of general and special external environmental factors on the green organization. The general environment of an organization includes the natural, demographic, economic, social, political, legal, cultural, and technological environment, while the special environment includes consumers, competitors, and suppliers. The evaluation of the external environment is important to reduce the uncertainty of the environment and the negative impact of its changes on organizational performance. It is reasonable to include an assessment of the external environment in the creation of a green organization benchmark since certain factors in the external environment of organizations, such as legal regulation, directly and indirectly, affect the organizations' willingness to transform in a green direction, especially in certain fields of activity, such as energy or manufacturing.
