Investigating Technical Barriers to Green Supply Chain Management Using the Interpretive Structural Modelling Technique

Abstract

Abstract: Handling the issue of “Greening” the supply chain becomes a must in the recent literatures of the Supply Chain Management (SCM). Indeed, several practical studies have been implemented to show that better performance can be linked with “Greening” SCM practices. Consequently, several studies have also discussed numerous issues related to the technical barriers of practicing Green SCM (GSCM). The purpose of this paper is to investigate these Technical Barriers (TBs) using the Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) within the context of Saudi Arabian dairy food industry. It is found that the difficulty in transforming positive environmental attitude into practical initiatives represents one of the issue. However, it is an issue that is, in fact, resulted from the existence of other barriers that are negatively influencing GSCM within the context Saudi Arabian dairy food industry.

Keywords

• Supply Chain Management,Interpretive Structural Modelling,Technical Barriers,Environmental Attitude

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