TY - JOUR
T1 - A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyze the barriers to Green Supply Chain Management adoption in a food packaging company
AU - Wang, Zhigang
AU - Mathiyazhagan, K.
AU - Xu, Lei
AU - Diabat, Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71302005 , 71202162 ), the major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant no. 13&ZD147 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/3/20
Y1 - 2016/3/20
N2 - Environmental deterioration is becoming a topic of focus for researchers and practitioners around the world, as increasing consumer demand is further driving activities across all sectors of products and services. As such, governmental regulations are being enforced and countries around the globe are adopting means of promoting environmental policies in order to mitigate pollution by improving environmental performance and increasing efficiency. Such policies are applicable across all industries, including both the manufacturing and services industry. Specifically, the packaging industry has a very high environmental impact due to the significant level of pollution occurring from the use of hazardous packaging material. The implementation of environmental management concepts can help control the effect from the hazardous packaging of products. However, the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management is hardly an easy task for most industries. There are several factors that act as barriers to the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). The objective of the current paper is to identify the key barriers to the implementation of GSCM in the packaging industry by using Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL). The results of the study aim to assist the packaging industry in better understanding the major barriers, as this is the first crucial step in overcoming them. Results demonstrate that lack of adequate training and progress monitoring as well as poor customer awareness and lack of pressure for widespread adoption of GSCM are among the most influential barriers. Important findings, limitations and managerial implications are also discussed in the current paper.
AB - Environmental deterioration is becoming a topic of focus for researchers and practitioners around the world, as increasing consumer demand is further driving activities across all sectors of products and services. As such, governmental regulations are being enforced and countries around the globe are adopting means of promoting environmental policies in order to mitigate pollution by improving environmental performance and increasing efficiency. Such policies are applicable across all industries, including both the manufacturing and services industry. Specifically, the packaging industry has a very high environmental impact due to the significant level of pollution occurring from the use of hazardous packaging material. The implementation of environmental management concepts can help control the effect from the hazardous packaging of products. However, the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management is hardly an easy task for most industries. There are several factors that act as barriers to the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). The objective of the current paper is to identify the key barriers to the implementation of GSCM in the packaging industry by using Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL). The results of the study aim to assist the packaging industry in better understanding the major barriers, as this is the first crucial step in overcoming them. Results demonstrate that lack of adequate training and progress monitoring as well as poor customer awareness and lack of pressure for widespread adoption of GSCM are among the most influential barriers. Important findings, limitations and managerial implications are also discussed in the current paper.
KW - Barriers
KW - DEMATEL
KW - Food packaging industry
KW - Green Supply Chain Management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.142
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.142
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84956869261
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 117
SP - 19
EP - 28
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -