Assessment of hierarchy and inter-relationships of barriers to environmentally conscious manufacturing adoption

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to develop hierarchy and inter-relationship among barriers to environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) adoption using an interpretive structural modeling (ISM) technique. The paper will demonstrate how ISM supports policy makers in the government and industry in identifying and understanding interdependencies among barriers to ECM. Interdependencies among barriers will be derived and structured into a hierarchy in order to derive subsystems of interdependent elements with corresponding driving power and dependency.