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Empirical Analysis of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in Indian Automobile Industry

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Environmental sustainability and green environmental issues have an increasing popularity among researchers and supply chain practitioners. An attempt has been made to identify and empirically analyze green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in Indian automobile industry. Six main GSCM practices (having 37 sub practices) and four expected performance outcomes (having 16 performances) have been identified by implementing GSCM practices from literature review. Questionnaire based survey has been made to validate these practices and performance outcomes. 123 complete questionnaires were collected from Indian automobile organizations and used for empirical analysis of GSCM practices in Indian automobile industry. Descriptive statistics have been used to know current implementation status of GSCM practices in Indian automobile industry and multiple regression analysis has been carried out to know the impact on expected organizational performance outcomes by current GSCM practices adopted by Indian automobile industry. The results of study suggested that environmental, economic, social and operational performances improve with the implementation of GSCM practices. This paper may play an important role to understand various GSCM implementation issues and help practicing managers to improve their performances in the supply chain.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, 136119, Haryana, India

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, Delhi, India

    A. Haleem

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Luthra, S., Garg, D. & Haleem, A. Empirical Analysis of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in Indian Automobile Industry. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C 95, 119–126 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-014-0112-6

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