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Identification and evaluation of the contextual relationship among barriers to the circular supply chain in the Pakistani context – an interpretive structural modelling approach

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Pages 1148-1163 | Received 31 Jul 2021, Accepted 14 Dec 2022, Published online: 23 Dec 2022

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