This study identifies a list of barriers that hinders adoption, implementation and upscaling of sustainable supply chain innovation in the manufacturing industry. It further proposes overcoming strategies that seek to aid management decision to dealing with these barriers systematically. A multi-criteria decision analysis method, the Best-Worst Method (BWM), is adopted to aid in the evaluation and prioritization of the barriers and their overcoming strategies within the Indian manufacturing industry, an emerging economy. The results depict that, “lack of technical expertise and training”, “lack of R&D and innovation capabilities”, “popularity of traditional technology”, “high initial investment in latest technology” and “fear of extra workload and loss of flexibility” are the top five barriers that confronts the Indian manufacturing companies in their quest for adopting and implementing sustainable supply chain innovation practices. In addition, the overcoming strategic pathway for dealing with these barriers are provided. The findings provide managerial and policy insights for guiding the formation of strategic operations framework and resource allocation if these Indian manufacturing firms seeks to build sustainability into their supply chain innovations.

本研究确定了一系列阻碍制造业采用，实施和扩大可持续供应链创新的障碍。它还提出了旨在帮助管理决策系统地解决这些障碍的策略。采用了多准则决策分析方法，即最佳最差方法（BWM），以帮助评估和确定新兴经济体印度制造业中的障碍及其克服策略的优先级。结果表明，“缺乏技术专长和培训”，“缺乏研发和创新能力”，“传统技术的普及”，印度制造公司在寻求采用和实施可持续供应链创新实践时面临的五大障碍是“对最新技术的大量初始投资”和“对额外工作量的恐惧和灵活性的丧失”。此外，还提供了克服这些障碍的战略途径。如果这些印度制造企业试图将可持续性纳入其供应链创新中，那么这些发现将为管理和政策方面的见解提供指导，以指导战略运营框架的形成和资源分配。