Barriers and overcoming strategies to supply chain sustainability innovation

GUPTA, Himanshu, KUSI-SARPONG, Simonov and REZAEI, Jafar (2020). Barriers and overcoming strategies to supply chain sustainability innovation. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 161: 104819.

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Abstract

This study identifies a list of barriers that hinders adoption, implementation and upscaling of sustainable supply chain innovation in the manufacturing industry. It further proposes overcoming strategies that seek to aid management decision to dealing with these barriers systematically. A multi-criteria decision analysis method, the Best-Worst Method (BWM), is adopted to aid in the evaluation and prioritization of the barriers and their overcoming strategies within the Indian manufacturing industry, an emerging economy. The results depict that, “lack of technical expertise and training”, “lack of R&D and innovation capabilities”, “popularity of traditional technology”, “high initial investment in latest technology” and “fear of extra workload and loss of flexibility” are the top five barriers that confronts the Indian manufacturing companies in their quest for adopting and implementing sustainable supply chain innovation practices. In addition, the overcoming strategic pathway for dealing with these barriers are provided. The findings provide managerial and policy insights for guiding the formation of strategic operations framework and resource allocation if these Indian manufacturing firms seeks to build sustainability into their supply chain innovations.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	05 Environmental Sciences; 09 Engineering; 12 Built Environment and Design; Environmental Sciences; 33 Built environment and design; 40 Engineering; 41 Environmental sciences
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104819
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2023 15:06
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2023 15:15
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32484

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