Identification of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) Barriers in the Indian Context
Mohd. Azmi Khan Salma Ahmed Sadia Samar Ali
AbstractDue to the new trends in global warming, environmental consciousness has become a greater concern among the organizations and industries globally. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has received an increased attention from academia and industries in last few years. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has emerged as an innovative organizational strategy to reduce environmental impacts of supply chain activities as well as efficient usage of energy and material. In today’s developing economies, customers are becoming more conscious of the environment and governments are making stringent environmental laws, so the industries need to reduce the environmental impact of their supply chain activities. There are many barriers which directly and indirectly affect the implementation of GSCM in an organization. In this paper twenty barriers have been identified through extensive literature review and expert opinion of academicians. These barriers are found to exist in all organizations irrespective of industry domain. Due to the presence of various barriers, Indian organizations are struggling to implement GSCM in their operations. By removing the barriers, Indian industries can focus on cleaner production by adopting Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in their operations. The Objective of the study was to identify the GSCM barriers in Indian context. The research methodology was perusing literature in GSCM and validating by experts opinion. Literature was perused irrespective of industry domain. The study concludes by narrowing on twenty barriers which play a prominent role in the Indian context.