Abstract
The significance of sustainability is continually expanding among researchers, policymakers, and decision makers. To improve the efficiency of value chain activities such as manufacturing, distribution, and consumption, an innovative research solution has been proposed: ‘Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) through Information and Communication Technology (ICT)'. Sustainability through ICT is significant for the industry in terms of its sustainable effects on production processes, environment, and community. This research seeks to gauge ICT—as knowledge management—for industries in the successful adoption and execution of SCP. In so doing, potential key ICT-based factors to SCP are identified from the literature and experts' feedback. The present work suggests a decision framework for assessing the interrelationships among and between the ICT oriented factors by utilizing graph theory and matrix approach. Data for this work derives from three automotive companies operating in India. From findings, ‘Governance and Management', is the topmost factor for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production in value chains. The relationship among the index values is further evaluated using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. This research can facilitate practitioners, government agencies, and customers for a better understanding of ICT-driven factors in managing resources, reducing waste, and improving cost, which would further help in meeting sustainable development goals of the United Nations of responsible consumption and production and innovation, industry, and infrastructure.
Highlights
The present industrial consumption and production patterns provide huge impacts on the environment, for example, a worldwide increase in temperature, loss of biodiversity, air, soil, and water contamination, etc
Graph Theory and Matrix Approach (GTMA) is preferred over Analytic Network Process (ANP), Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) as it is capable of solving the system implicitly and explicitly and evaluates the inter-relationship among variables in a system as well (Muduli et al, 2013; Jangra et al, 2011)
The concept of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become important for business in Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) adoption
Summary
The present industrial consumption and production patterns provide huge impacts on the environment, for example, a worldwide increase in temperature, loss of biodiversity, air, soil, and water contamination, etc. In this sense, sustainable consumption and production (SCP) are increasing attention among stakeholders (Erlandsson and Tillman, 2009), which pushes the industries to adopt SCP practices along the value chain (Koplin et al, 2007). Information and communication technologies (ICT) are contributing to a sustainable society (Cerri and Terzi, 2016). Sustainability through ICT modules has received huge recognition in the industry in terms of sustainable effects on production processes and energy use (Lu et al, 2014)
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