Title: Strategic planning for environmental sustainability in supply chains: an ISM and MICMAC approach

Authors: Saheim Khalaf Al-Josaiman; Faisal Talib; Mohd. Nishat Faisal

Addresses: College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India ' Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar

Abstract: The research reported in this paper relates to the environmental dimension of sustainability in SCs in large manufacturing organisations in Qatar. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to the classification (MICMAC) approach was applied to develop a hierarchy-based model for the 14 enablers of environmental sustainability derived through extensive literature review. Findings suggest that there is a set of variables like top management support and supportive legislation that can be considered as strategic in nature and drivers of environmental sustainability in SCs. While another set of variables like company image and reduced costs are resultant actions, which have high dependence implying that any improvement in these variables requires action on lower-level variables. It is recommended that top management should focus on variables with high driving power and low dependence.

Keywords: supply chain management; environmental sustainability; interpretive structural modelling; ISM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2023.129045

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2023 Vol.44 No.2, pp.149 - 172

Received: 08 Jun 2020
Accepted: 21 Dec 2020
Published online: 16 Feb 2023 *

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