Abstract:
The concept of Green Supply Chain Management is being discussing by the researchers today
more than ever before. It is because of environmental issues raised through the process of
delivering the products to end user. It becomes one of the main sources of serious environmental
problems. Therefore most of the organizations tend to accept the green practices as a concern to
environmental sustainability. Therefore this study aims to identify the level of adoption of green
supply chain practices of manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka and to identify the key derivers that
influence to adopt green supply chain practices of manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka. For this
purpose structured questionnaire is used to collect data from the sample of ISO 14000 certified
manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka and structural equation model is used to analyze data.
Theoretical scope of the study includes identifying external factors based on institutional theory
and internal factors based on resource based view for adopting green supply chain practices
while empirical scope is narrow down to the manufacturing companies of Sri Lanka.
Identifying the trend that the world need to be changed for environmental aspects due to global
issues, it is important to study the green supply chain management since it is one of the ways to
reduce environmental impacts of firms’ operations and for sustainability. And also the findings
of the study will be more contributed to enhance the adoption of green supply chain practices by
manufacturers, suppliers and the government.
