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Identification of Green Procurement Drivers and Their Interrelationship Using Total Interpretive Structural Modelling

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Green procurement is the set of procurement policies held, action taken and relationships formed in response to concerns linked with the natural environment. Green procurement has drawn major attention of supply chain practitioners and has become the theme of most of the seminars and workshops. Green procurement is gaining popularity due to its positive association with the triple bottom line, that is, sustainability. Firms implement green procurement to achieve sustainability in this dynamic business environment. There are several published papers that have adopted qualitative and quantitative methodology to build and test theories in the field of green procurement. However, existing research gaps have motivated to pursue this study. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the interrelationships of green procurement drivers. First, systematic review of literature is done to identify the leading drivers. Second, these drivers were refined through experts’ opinion with interview conducted among five procurement managers from South African manufacturing sector. Third, the comments of these experts are converted into interpretive logic of pairwise comparison, and total interpretive structural model (TISM) is developed. Finally the conclusion of research, the managerial implications and directions of future research are presented.

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  • Surajit Bag, 2017. "Identification of Green Procurement Drivers and Their Interrelationship Using Total Interpretive Structural Modelling," Vision, , vol. 21(2), pages 129-142, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:vision:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:129-142
    DOI: 10.1177/0972262917700990
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