Critical factors for the successful usage of fly ash in roads &amp; bridges and embankments: Analyzing indian perspective

Haleem, Abid; Luthra, Sunil; Mannan, Bisma; Khurana, Sonal; Kumar, Sanjay; Ahmad, Sirajuddin

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.07.002

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“…Sustainable supply chain management practices in the context of oil and gas industries Raut et al, (2017) The integrated ISM-MICMAC analysis consists of several steps (Haleem et al, 2016), which are explained in relation to the objective of this work (to analyse the barriers in CSCM adoption), as follows:…”

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Barriers to effective circular supply chain management in a developing country context

Mangla

Luthra²,

Mishra

et al. 2018

Production Planning & Control

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Circular supply chain emphasizes surge in application of reuse, recycling and remanufacturing and thereby promotes the transformation of manufacturing characteristics from linear ('take-produce-utilize-dump') to circular model of flow of products, by-products and waste. Supply chains of manufacturing industries have become global in last few decades. Products manufactured in developing nations like India and China are being sent to developed nations for consumption in higher volumes. Developed nations have the regulatory policies, technological knowhow and modern infrastructure to adopt circular supply chain model. Their counterpart is trailing in these aspects. In literature, limited research work has been performed on identifying challenges of implementing circular supply chain management in developing nations and their contextual association. In this article, based on thorough literature review and feedback received from experts, sixteen important barriers were identified to circular supply chain management adoption in Indian context. The listed barriers were then analysed using an integrated Interpretive Structural Modelling-MICMAC approach. This study attempts to identify the contextual interactions among identified barriers and to examine their hierarchical levels in effective adoption and implementation of circular supply chain management. The findings of this research will contribute in transforming supply chains in terms of bringing economic prosperity, addressing global warming issues and generating numerous employment opportunities. Finally, some crucial policy measures and recommendations are proposed to assist managers and government bodies to adopt and manage the concepts of circular supply chains effectively in Indian context.

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Barriers to effective circular supply chain management in a developing country context

Mangla

Luthra²,

Mishra

et al. 2018

Production Planning & Control

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“…ISM–MICMAC's integrated methodology includes various steps (Haleem et al, ) that are explained in relation to the current study (to study the barriers to CSR implementation). The mixed approach involves the following steps (Warfield, ): Identify the variables associated with the research problem (barriers to CSR adoption).…”

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Promoting sustainability through corporate social responsibility implementation in the manufacturing industry: An empirical analysis of barriers using the ISM‐MICMAC approach

Bux

Zhang

Ahmad

2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a useful instrument to promote sustainability in organizations by focusing on their social, economic, and environmental aspects. Despite the growing adoption of CSR in the developed countries, it is at an initial stage of adoption in developing countries owing to the challenges faced by organizations. This study empirically identified the barriers to CSR adoption in a developing country context by taking the Pakistani manufacturing industry as a case. A novel framework was developed to analyze the obstacles by integrating the Delphi method (DM), interpretive structural modeling (ISM), and MICMAC. Initially, CSR obstacles were identified from previous literature; these were later filtered by using the DM. Furthermore, the data collected from experts and the results obtained through the application of ISM and MICMAC indicate that the “lack of resources, ” “lack of regulations and standards, ” and “lack of policy incentives” are the most critical barriers impeding CSR implementation in the Pakistani manufacturing industry. “Lack of concern for reputation” and “customers do not care about CSR” emerged as the least essential barriers to CSR adoption. The government, as the primary stakeholder and implementing agency, can act as the moderator to overcome these barriers and take initiatives for the effective adoption of CSR. This study would support manufacturing industry managers’ effort to understand the main obstacles to CSR adoption and develop an effective implementation policy for CSR adoption.

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“…These elements are generally identified by literature review, expert opinions, and/or surveys. Some of the unique approaches have been use of thematic analysis [58], upper echelon theory [11], contingency theory [59], content analysis [52], strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis [30], idea engineering workshop [40,60], and Delphi technique [37,61]. One study [42] has defined the source, understanding, and interpretation for each variable.…”

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“…Implementation of this technique and conduction of brainstorming sessions with experts in previous studies [17,18] led to identification of some key challenges such as variables' identification, selection of decision makers and method of decision making, and unavailability of end-to-end software for ISM and MICMAC. Furthermore, the literature shows erroneous applications of steps of ISM such as wrong reachability matrix [19][20][21][22], wrong transitivity calculations [9,13,16,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], incorrect level partitioning and wrong structure of the model [31,[38][39][40][41][42], and incorrect addition [11,14,[43][44][45][46][47][48] or reduction [49][50][51][52] of edges affecting the reachability of variables. An error in an earlier step generally leads to an error in subsequent steps.…”

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SmartISM: Implementation and Assessment of Interpretive Structural Modeling

Ahmad

Qahmash

2021

Sustainability

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Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a technique to establish the interrelationships between elements of interest in a specific domain through experts’ knowledge of the context of the elements. This technique has been applied in numerous domains and the list continues to grow due to its simplistic concept, while sustainability has taken the lead. The partially automated or manual application of this technique has been prone to errors as witnessed in the literature due to a series of mathematical steps of higher-order computing complexity. Therefore, this work proposes to develop an end-to-end graphical software, SmartISM, to implement ISM technique and MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification)), generally applied along with ISM to classify variables. Further, a scoping review has been conducted to study the applications of ISM in the previous studies using Denyer and Tranfield’s (2009) framework and newly developed SmartISM. For the development of SmartISM, Microsoft Excel software has been used, and relevant algorithms and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) functions have been illustrated. For the transitivity calculation the Warshall algorithm has been used and a new algorithm reduced conical matrix has been introduced to remove edges while retaining the reachability of variables and structure of digraph in the final model. The scoping review results demonstrate 21 different domains such as sustainability, supply chain and logistics, information technology, energy, human resource, marketing, and operations among others; numerous types of constructs such as enablers, barriers, critical success factors, strategies, practices, among others, and their numbers varied from 5 to 32; number of decision makers ranged between 2 to 120 with a median value of 11, and belong to academia, industry, and/or government; and usage of multiple techniques of discourse and survey for decision making and data collection. Furthermore, the SmartISM reproduced results show that only 29 out of 77 studies selected have a correct application of ISM after discounting the generalized transitivity incorporation. The outcome of this work will help in more informed applications of this technique in newer domains and utilization of SmartISM to efficiently model the interrelationships among variables.

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Critical factors for the successful usage of fly ash in roads & bridges and embankments: Analyzing indian perspective

Cited by 32 publications

References 39 publications

Barriers to effective circular supply chain management in a developing country context

Barriers to effective circular supply chain management in a developing country context

Promoting sustainability through corporate social responsibility implementation in the manufacturing industry: An empirical analysis of barriers using the ISM‐MICMAC approach

SmartISM: Implementation and Assessment of Interpretive Structural Modeling

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