Barriers affecting the green transformation process in healthcare organizations

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to ‘identify’, ‘analyse’, and ‘categorise’ the barriers affecting the green transformation process in healthcare using Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM) and MICMAC analysis. The TISM technique was utilized to determine how the components interacted and the green transformation process barriers criteria were ranked and categorized using the MICMAC method. This study identified 11 barriers to green transformation process in healthcare organizations. The key factors identified in this study are inadequate strategic planning, financial barriers, and high technology adoption cost, information barriers, international issues in healthcare environmental sustainability, lack of supportive atmosphere. The TISM technique for healthcare is proposed in this paper as a novel attempt to address the subject of green transformation process barriers. This research will aid key stakeholders and academics in the better understanding the barriers affecting the green transformation process in healthcare organizations.

KEYWORDS:

• Green transformation
• healthcare
• barriers
• information barriers
• competence barriers
• financial barriers

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Albi Thomas

Albi Thomas is a research scholar at Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration – Healthcare Management from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. Her field of study is Healthcare Agility. Her research interests include agile healthcare operations, lean-sustainable healthcare operations, and service operations. She is currently working on agile sustainable healthcare operations.

M. Suresh

M. Suresh is an Associate Professor at Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India. He holds a PhD in Project Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and Master’s in Industrial Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. His research interests include issues related to lean and agile operations and performance management. He has authored several papers in Operations Management and currently working on lean and agile Healthcare Operations Management. He is also a member of International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.