An Evaluation of Drivers in Implementing Sustainable Manufacturing in India: Using DEMATEL Approach

Authors: D. Garg, S. Luthra, A. Haleem

Abstract:

Due to growing concern about environmental and social consequences throughout the world, a need has been felt to incorporate sustainability concepts in conventional manufacturing. This paper is an attempt to identify and evaluate drivers in implementing sustainable manufacturing in Indian context. Nine possible drivers for successful implementation of sustainable manufacturing have been identified from extensive review. Further, Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach has been utilized to evaluate and categorize these identified drivers for implementing sustainable manufacturing in to the cause and effect groups. Five drivers (Societal Pressure and Public Concerns; Regulations and Government Policies; Top Management Involvement, Commitment and Support; Effective Strategies and Activities towards Socially Responsible Manufacturing and Market Trends) have been categorized into the cause group and four drivers (Holistic View in Manufacturing Systems; Supplier Participation; Building Sustainable culture in Organization; and Corporate Image and Benefits) have been categorized into the effect group. “Societal Pressure and Public Concerns” has been found the most critical driver and “Corporate Image and Benefits” as least critical or the most easily influenced driver to implementing sustainable manufacturing in Indian context. This paper may surely help practitioners in better understanding of these drivers and their priorities towards effective implementation of sustainable manufacturing.

Keywords: Drivers, Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), India, Sustainable Manufacturing (SM).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1097381

References:

[1] M. Garetti and M. Taisch, “Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges”, Production Planning & Control, vol. 23, no.2-3, pp. 83-104, 2012.
[2] A. H. Hu and C. W. Hsu, “Critical factors for implementing green A. H. Hu and C. W. Hsu, “Critical factors for implementing green supply chain management practice: an empirical study of electrical and electronics industries in Taiwan”, Management Research Review, Vol. 33, no.6, pp. 586-608, 2010.
[3] P. Rao, “Greening the supply chain: a new initiative in South East Asia”, International Journal of Operation and Production Management, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 632-655, 2002.
[4] S. Luthra, D. Garg and A. Haleem, “Critical success factors of green supply chain management for achieving sustainability in Indian automobile industry”, Production Planning & Control, (ahead-of-print), 1-24, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2014.904532
[5] S. Rachuri, R. D. Sriram, A. Narayanan, P. Sarkar, J. H. Lee, K. W. Lyons and S. J. Kemmerer (Eds.), “ Sustainable manufacturing: metrics, standards, and infrastructure -Workshop Report,” NISTIR 7683, 2010.
[6] F. Jovane, H. Yoshikawa, L. Alting, C. R. Boër, E. Westkamper, D. Williams, M. Tseng, G. Seliger, and A. M. Paci, “The incoming global technological and industrial revolution towards competitive sustainable manufacturing”, CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology ,vol. 57 no. 2, pp. 641-659, 2008.
[7] A. D. Jayal, F. Badurdeen, O.W. Dillon Jr. and I. S. Jawahir, I. S., “Sustainable manufacturing: Modeling and optimization challenges at the product, process and system levels”, CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 144-152, 2008.
[8] A. Gunasekaran and A. Spalanzani., “Sustainability of manufacturing and services: Investigations for research and applications”, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 140 no. 1, pp. 35-47, 2012.
[9] S. Luthra, M. A. Qadri, D. Garg, A. Haleem, “Identification of critical success factors to achieve high green supply chain management performances in Indian automobile industry”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, vol. 18 no. 2, pp. 170-199, 2014.
[10] S. K. Srivastava, "Green supply‐chain management: a state‐of‐the‐art literature review”, International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 9 no. 1, pp. 53-80, 2007.
[11] S. Luthra, D. Garg, and A. Haleem, “Green supply chain management: Implementation and performance–a literature review and some issues”, Journal of Advances in Management Research, vol. 11 no. 1, pp. 20-46, 2014.
[12] S. Mangla, P. Kumar and M. K. Barua, “An evaluation of attribute for improving the green supply chain performance via DEMATEL method”, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering & Robotics Research Special Issue on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering – RAME, vol. 1no. 1, pp. 30-35, 2014.
[13] S. Gupta and O. D. Palsule-Desai, “Sustainable supply chain management: review and research opportunities”, IIMB Management Review, vol. 23 no. 4, pp. 234-245, 2011.
[14] V. K. Mittal and K. S. Sangwan, “Prioritizing drivers for green manufacturing: Environmental, social and economic perspectives”, Procedia CIRP, vol. 15, pp. 135-140, 2014.
[15] V. K. Mittal and K. S. Sangwan, “Prioritizing barriers to green manufacturing: Environmental, social and economic perspectives”, Procedia CIRP, vol. 17, pp. 559-564, 2014.
[16] L. M. Anderson and T. S. Bateman, “Individual environmental initiative: championing natural environmental issues in U.S. business organizations”, Academy of Management Journal, vol. 43, no.4, pp. 548- 570, 2000.
[17] L. C. Giunipero, R. E. Hooker and D. Denslow, “Purchasing and supply management sustainability: Drivers and barriers”, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, vol. 18, no.4, pp. 258-269, 2012.
[18] Q. Zhu and Y. Geng, “Drivers and barriers of extended supply chain practices for energy saving and emission reduction among Chinese manufacturers”, Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 40, pp. 6-12, 2013.
[19] P. R. Kleindorfer, K. Singhal and L. N. Wassenhove, “Sustainable operations management”, Production and operations management, vol. 14, no.4, pp. 482-492, 2005.
[20] Málovics, N. N. Csigéné and S. Kraus, “The role of corporate social responsibility in strong sustainability”, The Journal of Socio- Economics, vol. 37, no.3, pp. 907-918, 2008.
[21] R. H. A. Seidel, M. Shahbazpour and M. C. Seidel, “Establishing sustainable manufacturing practices in SMEs”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science, Talking and Walking Sustainability. Auckland, pp. 1-10, 2007.
[22] A. N. Nambiar, “Challenges in sustainable manufacturing”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operation Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 1-6, 2010.
[23] D. Garg, S. Luthra and A. Haleem, “Ranking of performance measures of GSCM towards sustainability: Using analytic hierarchy process”, International Journal of Social, Management, Economics and Business Engineering, vol. 8 no. 3, pp. 764-770, 2014.
[24] T. J. Carter, Prasnikar and B. Carter, “Environmental strategies and their motives and results in slovenian business practices”, Economic and Business Review, vol. 11 no. 1, pp. 55-74, 2009.
[25] S. Luthra, V. Kumar, S. Kumar and A. Haleem, “Barriers to implement green supply chain management in automobile industry using interpretive structural modeling technique-an Indian perspective”, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, vol. 4 no. 2, pp. 231-257, 2011.
[26] K.N. Ruwanpura and N. Wrigley, “The costs of compliance? Views of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers in times of global economic crisis”, Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 11 no. 6, pp. 1031-1049, 2011.
[27] N. Nordin, H. Ashari and M. F. Rajemi, “A case study of sustainable manufacturing practices”, Journal of Advanced Management Science, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 12-16, 2014.
[28] S. Luthra, D. Garg and A. Haleem, “Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using analytical hierarchy process”, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, vol. 6 no. 4, pp. 930-962, 2013.
[29] S. Luthra, D. Garg and A. Haleem, “Empirical analysis of green supply chain management practices in Indian automobile industry”, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, vol. 95 no. 2, pp. 119- 126, 2014.
[30] G. A. Zsidisin and S. P. Siferd, “Environmental purchasing: a framework for theory development”, European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Chain, vol. 7, pp. 61-73, 2001.
[31] S. Vachon and K. D. Klassen, “Environmental management and manufacturing performance: The role of collaboration in the supply chain”, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 111, pp. 299-315, 2008.
[32] B. Ageron, A. Gunasekaran and A. Spalanzani, “Sustainable supply management: An empirical study”, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 140 no. 1, pp. 168-182, 2012.
[33] S. Benn, D. Dunphy and A. Griffiths, A. (2014), ‘Organizational change for corporate sustainability’, Routledge, 2014.
[34] R. J. Adams, J. Bessant, S. Jeanrenaud, P. Overy and D. Denyer, “Innovating for sustainability: A systematic review of the body of knowledge”, Network of Business Sustainability, 2011. Online available at: www.nbs.net/knowledge/culture.
[35] A. Gabus and E. Fontela, “World problems, an invitation to further thought within the framework of DEMATEL. BATTELLE Institute, Geneva Research Centre, Geneva, Switzerland, 1972.
[36] W. W. Wu, “Segmenting critical factors for successful knowledge management implementation using the fuzzy DEMATEL method”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 12 no. 1, pp. 527-525, 2012.
[37] J. Y. Lee, H. S. Kang and S.D. Noh, “MAS< sup> 2: an integrated modeling and simulation-based life cycle evaluation approach for sustainable manufacturing”, Journal of Cleaner Production, , vol. 66 no. 1, pp. 146-163, 2014.