Presenting a Conceptual Model of Green Supply Chain Management to Improve Sustainable Development of the Environment with a Qualitative Approach Grounded Theory

The green supply chain management model is to protect the environment, and companies can use it to reduce the negative environmental impacts according to the future and achieve the optimal use of resources and energy.

The purpose of this study is to identify and formulate a conceptual model of green supply chain management in the Petrochemical industry of Fars province using the qualitative method Grounded Theory.

The method of data collection is the study of documents and interviews with 20 experts aware of the subject under discussion, using the method of snowball sampling. The validity of this study was reviewed and confirmed by the interviewees and then expert professors. To analyze the data, continuous comparison method was used during three stages of open, axial, and selective coding, based on which a qualitative research model was designed.

The results of the present study indicate the extraction of 120 codes or basic concepts from interviews and 21 criteria in the form of a paradigm model with MAXQDA software including causal conditions (design of green processes, customers and other external institutions, green innovation), background conditions. (Drivers of green materials supply, implementation of waste management system, financial thoughts and costs of the organization), intervention conditions (environmental management approaches, green supply chain risks, green suppliers' capabilities, human resource management), phenomenon-based environmental factors Economic (operational performance), strategies (management, technology, economics, policy-making), outcomes (green supply chain enablers, credit enhancement, institutionalization of technology equipment and know-how, energy management and optimization).