| Chn1 | Lack of awareness about I4.0 contributions to ethical and sustainable production | Almada (2016); Hofmann et al. (2017); Luthra and Mangla (2018); de Sousa Jabbour et al. (2018a), Liao et al. (2018); Dutta et al. (2020); Bhatia et al. (2020); Yadav et al. (2020) | 
| Chn2 | Lack of management support for I4.0 technologies | Feng et al. (2018); Luthra and Mangla (2018); Morrar et al. (2017); Turner et al. (2019); Kumar (2020 b) | 
| Chn3 | The high initial cost of I4.0 technologies for ethical and sustainable operations | Marques et al. (2017); Dawson (2014); Moktadir et al. (2018); Kumar (2020 b); Bhatia et al. (2020); Yadav et al. (2020) | 
| Chn4 | Lack of funds for investment in I4.0 technologies | Moktadir et al. (2018); Chien et al. (2020); Garcia-Muina et al. (2018) | 
| Chn5 | Lack of awareness about government policies for I4.0 and sustainability | BRICS Business Council (2017); Luthra and Mangla (2018); Rauch et al. (2019); Chauhan et al. (2019) | 
| Chn6 | Lack of dedicated resources for research & development on I4.0 technologies | Mokhtar et al. (2018); Almada (2016), Schwab et al. (2019); Dutta et al. (2020) | 
| Chn7 | Lack of long term planning on the adoption of I4.0 technologies for ethical and sustainable operations | Muller et al. (2018a); Feng et al. (2018); Luthra and Mangla (2018); Kumar (2020a) | 
| Chn8 | Lack of motivations from customers/OEMs on adopting I4.0 technologies for ethical and sustainable operations | Mokhtar et al. (2018); Marques et al. (2017); Dutta et al. (2020); de Sousa Jabbour et al., (2018b); Shashi et al. (2019) | 
| Chn9 | Lack of IT-based infrastructure (Software & Hardware) | Leitao et al.(2016); Bedekar (2017); Pfohl et al. (2017) | 
| Chn10 | Lack of trained workforce for sustainable operations & I4.0 technologies | Sommer (2015); Luthra and Mangla (2018); Muller et al. (2018a); Bhatia et al. (2020) | 
| Chn11 | Lack of coordination and collaboration among supply chain partners | Wang et al. (2016); Moktadir et al. (2018); Zezulka et al. (2016), Bag et al. (2020b); Kumar (2020a) | 
| Chn12 | Fear of unemployment/reduction in workforce | Satapathy (2017); Zezulka et al. (2016); Shin et al. (2019); Kumar (2020b); Cezarino et al. (2019) | 
| Chn13 | Fear of failure of I4.0 technologies | Satapathy (2017); Pfohl et al. (2017); Jain et al. (2017); Yadav et al. (2020) and Cezarino et al. (2019) | 
| Chn14 | Lack of alternative solutions to the technological breakdown | Dawson (2014); Moktadir et al. (2018); Kumar et al. (2018). | 
| Chn15 | Fear of demand uncertainty due to market disruptions | Wang et al. (2016); Theorin et al. (2017); Luthra and Mangla (2018) |