Presenter Divesh Kumar Ph.D. Scholar Department of Management Studies

1. The Eighth International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society "eLearning, m Learning, u Learning, and Social Networking" PresenterDivesh KumarPh.D. ScholarDepartment of Management Studies Sustainability through e-learning – Is it possible?

2. Sustainability Elkington (1994) defined three pillars of sustainability as: environmental, social and economical Consuming today - considering the future generation

3. Sustainable supply chain Carter and Roger, (2008) defined Sustainable Supply Chain Management as “the strategic achievement and integration of an organization’s social, environmental, and economic goals through the systemic coordination of key inter-organizational business processes to improve the long-term economic performance of the individual company and its value network”

4. Why Sustainability Across Supply Chain Mahler (2004) said sustainability can be achieved when it is adopted across whole supply chain, which provides new direction in the supply chain research. Supply chain is synonyms to the relationship management in business context

5. Why Relationship Management • It is also found in the literature that relationship is taken as collaboration, coordination, and joint development, integration, aligning activities, trust, involvement and influence on each other • Taking supply chain in mind many authors has started advocated the importance of relationship management for the sustainability adoption. • Information sharing and gathering is one of the strategy for the relationship management

7. How to Manage Relationship? How the information should be gathered and shared? Evidences shows that companies are adopting video conferencing, online training courses, and other activities to share the information, knowledge and experience with other companies.

9. E Learning Supplier's Supplier Supplier Focal Company Buyer Buyer’s Buyer Not like as university Spread across supply chain • Real Time sharing of Information • Workshop, Training

10. E-learning and Barriers to Sustainability • Better deal with the barriers to sustainability adoption like • lack of education • poor demand forecasting • failure to coordinate • Lack of awareness about sustainability and related processes

12. E-learning and Relationship Management • Proper monitoring and controlling of supply chain partner’s operations by • Information sharing • Training • knowledge sharing • to develop mutual trust among supply chain partners. • Helping and understanding partners need and fulfilling it with the e learning activities is one of the strategies for relationship management.

13. Relationship Management Intention to adopt sustainability E learning Activities Barriers Conceptualmodel with prepositions

14. Conceptualmodel with prepositions P 1: E learning activities have positive impact on the supply chain partner’s relationship. P 2: E learning activities have negative impact on the barriers to the sustainability adoption P 3: E learning activities directly related to intention to adopt sustainability. P 4: Quality of relationship is negatively related to barriers to sustainability adoption P 5: Quality of relationship is directly related to the intention to adopt sustainability. P 6: Decrease in the intensity of barriers is directly related to the intention to adopt sustainability

15. Proposed Research Methodology • Group of companies listed in some association, industry specific, and combination of the industries. Most of the previous research has been done in automobile industry. • The sample size has been taken at the different rate of the sample like 10%, 15% and 20% of the universe. • A proper questionnaire is to be developed with the help of literature and experts from the universe of the study. Statistical tools for the validation and reliability check was CFA. • Multiple regressions, logistic regression and other. In recent studies use of SEM has been increased to test the proposed model. AHP can be used for assigning the weight for each barrier.

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