Fuzzy ISM for Analyzing the Inhibitors of a Telecom Service Supply Chain

Relevance Of The Research

This section highlights the novelty of the current research. The current industrial world witnesses an unprecedented growth in telecom service sector. While having a bird’s eye view on the world of SCM literature, there can be observed a substantial amount of research focused on the interpretive behaviour of various supply chain elements. However, a research on the interpretiveness of TSSC has observed as a missing link in the plethora of SCM literature. Similarly research on importing SC concepts and a systematic analysis of the inhibitors of the telecom service sector is still a missing link. There is hardly any evidence in literature till date of such research being undertaken in telecom service sector. This research is an endeavour in that direction to fill the research gap. In addition to that the fuzziness of the driving power and dependence of the inhibitors has also been analysed. In the current study, various inhibitors influencing Indian telecom service provider supply chain have been analyzed using ISM approach incorporating the fuzziness of interrelationships. This yields a clear road map on the relationships among the inhibitors, and their driving power and dependence.