Information sharing in supply chain: Modeling the barriers

Information sharing (IS) encompasses the sharing between downstream members of supply chain (SC) to share their demand information effectively and efficiently with upstream members of SC. The barriers which resist in the IS enablement of SC are known as Information Sharing Barriers (ISBs). The main aim of this paper is to understand mutual influence of ISBs using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and to identify driving ISBs (ISBs that support other ISBs) and dependent ISBs (ISBs that are most influenced by others ISBs). It has been observed that ISBs `Lack of top management commitment and Vision´ has high driving power and low dependency.