Modern Research in Decision Making

Presenting a model of the main barriers affecting the implementation of green supply chain management (case study: construction industry)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

AZAM tariyan 1
Hessam Zandhessami 2
abbas khamseh 3

1 Ph.D. student. Department of Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Abstract
The construction industry is the one of the biggest sources of pollution which has caused significant harmful effects on the environment.Adopting green supply chain management can be a suitable strategy to control and reduce harmful environmental effects.The aim of the current research is to identify and present a model of effective barriers to the implementation of green supply chain management in the construction industry.In this research, a mixed approach and a purposeful sampling method have been used.To identify the components, a meta-synthesis approach was used and then a semi-structured interview with 14 experts who were managers and contractors active in the construction industry,has been used. In order to analyze the data, was used the hidden content analysis strategy by using MAXQDA software. Finally,the components based on the power of influence and dependence were identified using the MICMAC analysis and the research model was presented with the interpretive-structure method. Based on the findings, the barriers affecting to the implementation of green supply chain management were classified into 16 main factors and into 2 categories of internal and external barriers. Also, the results have shown a ten-level model lack of government support as the most influential variable in the tenth level and the variables: non-cooperation between stakeholders, lack of support from senior and middle managers, desire to maintain current construction methods, lack of green supply chain management measures in the vision and mission of the company are ranked as the most influential variables of this model are placed at the first level.

Keywords

Construction industry
Interpretive -structure modeling (ISM)
Internal and external Barriers
Green Supply chain management
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