Barriers of eco-friendly packaging (EFP) adoption: a multi-stakeholder perspective

Gunjan Shokeen is a Research Scholar in the Department of Management Studies at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (formerly Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology), New Delhi, India. Her research focuses on marketing, eco-friendly packaging, sustainable production and consumption, and consumer behavior. She received her B.Com (H) degree from the University of Delhi and her M.Com degree from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune. She has qualified the UGC-NET. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences.

Aastha Verma, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. She earned her Ph.D. from the same institution, and her research interests encompass consumer buying behavior, gamification in business, sustainable consumption, and sustainable packaging in marketing. Dr Verma has authored several research articles in esteemed journals including the Business Strategy and the Environment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change among others. One of her research papers received a full grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Government of India, to support its presentation at an international conference held in Malaysia.

Manish Das, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at Tripura University, India. His research interests include consumer psychology, sustainable consumption and retail and services marketing. Manish's research has been published in journals including Business Strategy and the Environment, European Journal of Marketing, Psychology and Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Brand Management, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Journal of Global Marketing, and International Journal of Consumer Studies, among others.

Charu Shri, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Commerce at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi. Her research interests include organizational behaviour, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, and sustainability. She has published extensively in reputed journals such as Environment Development and Sustainability; Management of Environmental Quality; Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management; Kybernetes; Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective; Higher Education for the Future; International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management; and Journal of Advances in Management Research among others. Dr Shri also supervises Ph.D. scholars in various domains and has led several research projects, including projects funded by the University of Delhi's Institution of Eminence (IoE) initiative and a DST-NIMAT funded project, demonstrating her strong leadership and project management skills.

Dinesh Kumar, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana. He is Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. He has served as Deputy Corporate Business Manager (D) at The Oriental Insurance Company Limited for over ten years. His research contributions include publications in Web of Science-, Scopus-, ABDC-, and UGC-indexed journals, covering diverse topics in marketing and finance.