Development of an Interpretive Structural Model of Barriers to Reverse Logistics Implementation in Indian Industry

Abstract

Sustainability is an important concept for twenty first century organizations and one approach for managing corporate sustainability is through the introduction of reverse logistics (RL). But there are many barriers to the implementation of RL in developing countries like India. This paper identifies sixteen barriers to RL from the literature survey. An interpretive structural modeling (ISM) technique has been used to develop a structural model to obtain proper hierarchy and interrelationship among the barriers. The model will help the decision makers in government and industry to prioritize the focus on the barriers for implementation of RL.