مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد موانع مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار در صنعت چرم – الزویر ۲۰۱۸

Environmental sustainability, green issues, and social sustainability have become increasingly popular among researchers and supply chain managers due to government regulations, customer expectations, and pressures imposed on buyers for green products. However, the rapid development of the leather industry in Bangladesh requires a concurrent increase in supply chain activities (Bai et al., 2017). An increase in such activities has implications for natural resource usage, waste generation, water pollution, emission of harmful gases and disruptions to the ecosystem (Luthra et al., 2011; Muduli et al., 2013; Rauer and Kaufmann, 2015). Meanwhile, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) implementation can help to ensure long-term environmental, social and economic benefits for both leather companies and customers. In addition, SSCM practices can integrate environmental, social and supply chain management techniques with the goal of preventing or minimizing environmental degradation, improving social sustainability and enhancing economic sustainability (Diabat and Govindan, 2011). However, the leather industry in Bangladesh is also facing tremendous global pressure to adopt SSCM practices in its traditional manufacturing systems. Although, in developed countries, there are currently competitive, regulatory and social pressures to adopt SSCM practices. Various organizations in developed countries have adopted diverse environmental management strategies, such as adopting cleaner technology (Grutter and Egler, 2004), achieving ISO 14001 certification (Junjie et al., 2007; Jabbour, 2015; Jabbour, 2010), implementing environmental management systems to minimize the adverse environmental effects of their supply chains and developing socially responsible supply chain management strategy (Nawrocka et al., 2009; Jabbour et al., 2012; Jabbour and Jabbour, 2016). Nowadays, developed countries are also used clean technologies to reduce waste for the protection of the environment (Pagell and Wu, 2009; Seuring and Müller, 2008; Walker and Jones, 2012; Zailani et al., 2012). So far, some authors tried to examine the barriers to green supply chain management (GSCM) and SSCM practices in the context of other country, particularly in other domain. Also, the lack of examining barriers to SSCM practices in the context of leather processing company has received lesser attention to researchers and practitioners. However, a few studies were conducted to examine the interactions of barriers to SSCM practices in the context of the developed and developing countries. Hence, this study adopts leather industry as example applications of barriers identification and finding interaction among identified barriers to SSCM implementation.