A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method to support materiality assessment in sustainability reporting

Calabrese, Armando; Costa, Roberta; Levialdi, Nathan; Menichini, Tamara

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.005

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“…As discussed in Calabrese et al [11], "few studies have inquired into quantitative methods for assessing the materiality of sustainability aspects […] and existing studies do not deal effectively with the issues of subjectivity" inherent in materiality analysis. In most cases, scholars suggest qualitative approaches, which render the need for an objective procedure essentially unsolved.…”

Section: Stakeholder Engagement In Materiality Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A method based on a fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [28] is suggested in [11], which converts the decision-makers' relative judgments into priorities for aspects. A materiality analysis model based on the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) [29] combined with Analytic Network Process (ANP) [30] is presented in [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…the identification of the sustainability aspects most relevant for the organization itself and its stakeholders. The proposed approach fills a gap in the literature (e.g., [11]), as it is expected to support firms, especially small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) [12,13], in effectively and reliably managing stakeholder engagement. Furthermore, an extensive adoption of the proposed approach would make it more difficult for companies pursuing opportunistic behaviors during sustainability reporting [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sustainability reporting is the process by which companies describe how they deal with their own economic, environmental, and social impacts, thus making stakeholders able to recognize the value of sustainable practices. As stressed in the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, which act as a de facto standard for sustainability reporting, sustainable reports should take into account the stakeholders' view. In particular, engaging stakeholders is essential to carry out the materiality analysis, by which organizations can identify their own more relevant sustainability aspects. Yet, on the one hand, the existing guidelines do not provide specific indications on how to get stakeholders actually engaged; on the other hand, research on quantitative techniques to support stakeholder engagement in materiality analysis is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is the development of a quantitative structured approach based on multi-attribute group decision-making techniques to effectively and reliably support stakeholder engagement during materiality analysis in sustainability reporting. As it more strictly guides the reporting process, the proposed approach at the same time simplifies materiality analysis and makes it more reliable. Though any company can adopt the approach, small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to particularly benefit from it, due to the quite limited implementation effort that is required. With this respect, the approach has been validated on a sample of Italian SMEs belonging to different sectors.

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“…When it comes to multiple criteria decision-making problem the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is one of the most popular (Calabrese, Costa, Levialdi, & Menichini [9]). In this study, experts need to select pre-reading strategies laid out in the questionnaire and rank them according to their degree of importance to be used in the English reading classroom.…”

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Implementing Pre-Reading Strategies to Improve Struggling ESL Learners’ Interest and Comprehension in English Reading Lessons

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This paper presents the implementation of pre-reading strategies to facilitate reading skills and increase interest in reading lessons among struggling ESL primary school pupils using the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) which is a multiple-attribute decision process that is normally made by a review committee with experts from academia. It also aims at providing a systematic approach to selecting appropriate pre-reading strategies to improve pupils' interest and comprehension in English reading lessons. In this study, six English Language teachers from Kuala Lumpur participated as experts to answer a questionnaire in the Fuzzy Delphi method to determine pre-reading strategies that facilitate reading among struggling Year Four pupils. A total of 250 Year Four pupils participated in a comprehension pretest from which thirty-five struggling Year Four pupils were selected. Through the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) and the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), three key pre-reading strategies were selected and sequenced according to their degree of importance as selected by the experts. The percentage of consensus achieved was 85% and the fuzzy hierarchy for pre-reading strategies was determined and ranked according to its importance namely activating prior knowledge, teaching explicit vocabulary, and conducting role-play. These strategies were implemented by the expert teachers during two English reading Research Cycles after which a post-test was administered. The post-test and checklists of observation on expert teachers indicated that the chosen pre-reading strategies had a significant effect in increasing pupils' interest and comprehension in reading.

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“…These tools accomplish a "linearization" of the inherently "non-linear" and time-variant problems that face all project development at such a large scale. These planning tools provide the scope, the institutional health metrics, human resource planning, resources prioritization, market viability (Calabrese et al, 2016), key performance indicators, and organizational goals (Maas et al, 2016) necessary for ERIs to make the case to private entities, for them to integrate their relevance and eventually engage and develop collaborative planning horizons (Braama et al, 2016).…”

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Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

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The present paper is a preliminary analysis of the funding, organizational culture, environmental, and innovation challenges that are currently faced by Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERI) and private enterprises working together. We contend there is a strong case for building creative collaboration models across these sectors that also require to new management tools to effectively generate economically-driven solutions to the global society at large in the face of climate change. To that end, public/private stakeholders that are likely to partner to address climate change also face new frontiers in how they will structurally and organizationally work together. We explore these issues around changing political, scientific, commercial environments; partnerships models; barriers in bridging these communities; and the role of formal project management processes. There is no one solution to fit all conditions that can bring together a specific public/private enterprise that incorporates a research infrastructure. However, we have provided two examples of collaborative models of public/private enterprises to highlight how these issues can be addressed, and to foster future dynamic and creative solutions to this problem.

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A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method to support materiality assessment in sustainability reporting

Cited by 178 publications

References 47 publications

Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach

Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach

Implementing Pre-Reading Strategies to Improve Struggling ESL Learners’ Interest and Comprehension in English Reading Lessons

Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

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