Abstract:
Today, the environmental issues are becoming serious challenges for organizations due to an ever-mounting shortage of resources, increased awareness among costumers, legislative reasons and impact on environment contributed by supply chain activities. Therefore, environmental management is gaining emergent importance among researchers and organizations in the form of green supply chain management (GSCM). The scope of GSCM involves various proactive approaches such as reduce, reuse, rework, recycle and reverse logistics hence resulting in positive environmental and financial benefits. Due to its various potential benefits, most of the developed countries are already adopting these practices but developing countries still need further attention and motivation. It is most particularly in the construction sector. Thus, the basis of this research is to find out the critical barriers and opportunities in GSCM of construction industry in developing countries. It also envisages to propose the strategies to avoid the critical barriers and exploit the opportunities for a better environmental performance of construction industry. For this purpose, a causal loop framework is developed showing how various barriers and opportunities are connected with each other. The research is carried out in different phases: identification of critical barriers and opportunities through literature using content analysis, questionnaire survey to determine the current industry trends regarding these barrier and opportunity and finally the development of a causal loop framework by using the top most barriers and opportunities showing their interconnectedness. This research is expected to help in adoption of GSCM practices by presenting a clear picture of possible benefits that can be exploited by removing the critical barriers in construction sector of developing countries.
