Identifying & Prioritizing the Effective Factors on Green Supply Chain Management by Using Path Analysis Approach

Today، one of the tools for Environmental sustainability، along with increasing manufacturers'' performance is Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). In this way، the purpose of this paper is to study «Identifying & prioritizing the effective factors on Green Supply Chain Management in chemical and detergents manufacturers by using Path Analysis Approach». The empirical data used in this study consists of questionnaire responses from 36 managers chemical and detergents manufacturers. Statistical analysis of data was done in two stages; Kendall''s Tau-b Correlation study and use of statistical method of Path Analysis. The results show the rejection of influence on internal drivers on Green Supply Chain Management practices (third hypothesis)، while the influence of external drivers on internal drivers and GSCM practices have been approved. This indicates that external drivers can provide positive bias of internal drivers towards a GSCM practice and manufacturers have to do this in order to stay in this competition.