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The concept of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) encompasses the principles of operations and logistics in a way that carbon footprints may be minimized and a greener ecological environment be maintained. A paradigm shift is observed in the way interpretation of green logistics in the light of existing organization theories has been carried out. Although various theories exist in this pretext but only selected ones have been catapulted in this paper in the direction of attaining GSCM at holistic level. This conceptual paper aims at drawing vital prescripts from myriad of organizational theories and extrapolates its relevance in getting a broader insight into the nuances of GSCM for a better implementation of environment friendly logistics. The data mining technique used in the paper is systematic search. Conceptual framework analysis has been employed as the qualitative research tool in this literature intensive reference based study. The paper entails promise for nature conservationists, social advocates of corporate citizenship, logistic managers, line managers of operations oriented business firms and researchers.