...Seyed Mahmood Zanjirchi; Najmeh Faregh Purpose ISM technique is one of the tools of interest in soft operations research. The soft nature of this technique has made inevitable use of indeterminacy theories. The present research attempts to develop ISM technique and MICMAC analysis...

... Supply chain Enablers ISM Competitive supply chain Businesses need to be competitive to survive in the market, and hence their supply chains need to be strong enough without any weaker links to achieve that goal. The manufacturers have formed integrated networks in the past to overcome...

.... Design/methodology/approach This research identifies twenty GSCPs with the consultation of the team of industry practitioners and academicians. Interpretative structural modelling (ISM) is applied to develop the relationship between GSCPs, which gives the direct and indirect effects of each GSCPs...

... autonomous, linkage, dependent and independent barriers can be tackled to build resilience. Originality/value TISM is considered as an effective methodology for conceptual framework development as it also explains “why” between the relationships besides explaining the “what” as against ISM...

... discussions, 12 significant barriers have been identified, which are analysed using an integrated interpretive structural modelling–analytical network process (ISM–ANP) methodology. An interrelationship between these barriers using ISM has been analysed to determine the driving-dependence power...

... 04 2020 18 06 2020 07 09 2020 25 09 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Automobile Maintenance Garage ISM AHP The Indian automotive industry is emerging as one of the prime drivers of economic growth...

... was designed for the determination of barriers. The respondents were asked to rank the barriers and the based on the statistical analysis eight barriers were selected. In the third step, a model was developed using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) which showed the inter-relationship among the various...

.... The aim of this paper is to identify the various factors causing bridge failure and show an interdependence/relationship among them. Design/methodology/approach Interpretive structural modeling (ISM), which is a tool of structural analysis for interactive learning, has been used to develop...