Modelling of Sustainable Manufacturing Barriers in Pharmaceutical Industries of Himachal Pradesh: An ISM-Fuzzy Approach

Abstract

In the present time, global competition among the manufacturing firms has forced all the industries to adopt new manufacturing system different from traditional manufacturing system. Adoption of sustainable manufacturing has become a critical issue in the present manufacturing scenario for Indian pharmaceutical industries. At present, pharmaceutical industries among the world are interested to become sustainable in order to cover all three aspects environmental, social and economic. There are number of practices which have been done in pharmaceutical industries among the world to achieve the sustainability. The present study focuses on the development of fuzzy-ISM model for barriers which affect the sustainability in pharmaceutical industries of Himachal Pradesh. In the first stage of this study, survey methodology is adopted for the data collection from pharmaceutical industries of Himachal Pradesh, and after that, fuzzy-ISM model is developed.