Antecedents and drivers for green supply chain management implementation in manufacturing environment

Abstract

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is, today, gaining much importance in manufacturing environment due to pressure from the government and environmental consciousness among the customers, to gain competitive advantage. In this paper, an attempt has been made to propose the antecedents and drivers of GSCM in a manufacturing environment, followed by a detailed discussion. While the antecedents of GSCM implementation are proposed as top management support and government's initiatives, the drivers of GSCM implementation are proposed as green sourcing, Green Design (GD), green manufacturing and re-manufacturing, green packaging, Reverse Logistics (RL), Environmental Management System (EMS), green innovation and customer awareness. These proposed antecedents and drivers for GSCM implementation in the manufacturing environment are highly conceptual in nature, which may be validated empirically by conducting a survey among various manufacturing supply chains, for complete acceptability.