Developing sustainable supplier selection criteria for solar air-conditioner manufacturer: An integrated approach

With a great emphasis on both social and environmental responsibilities, sustainable supply chain management has gradually been adopted and promoted as an innovative business model. In sustainable supply chain practice, the choice of sustainable suppliers relates to the long-term development of a company. While the environmental performance of suppliers has been commonly considered, the social dimension has not yet received enough attention. This paper first proposes a novel criteria system for evaluating sustainable suppliers from three aspects and six dimensions, and then introduces an integrated evaluation model with a novel hybrid information aggregation. To verify the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method, a real case of a large supermarket is introduced and analyzed. The research results show that (1) the indicator system based on Triple Bottom Line theory can serve as a framework of sustainable supplier selection for manufacturing and circulation enterprises; (2) the introduction of hybrid information aggregation can effectively handle the uncertainties of indicator scores under the realistic fuzzy environment and objectively reflect the intentions of the scorers; and (3) in comparison with the TOPSIS algorithm, the priority order finally obtained is consistent, but the proposed model shows more robustness in the sensitivity test.

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“…Flexible working arrangements, job opportunities, career development [15,18,66,68] Information disclosure…”

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An Integrated Sustainable Supplier Selection Approach Based on Hybrid Information Aggregation

Zhou

Zhang

2018

Sustainability

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“…Meanwhile, this method needs fewer data and is easier to operate. Nowadays, DEMATEL is widely used in supplier selection [44,45], remanufacturing management [2,46,47], human resource management [48,49], facility location selection [50][51][52], risk management [53,54], consumers' behavior analysis [55], financial performance diagnosis of insurance companies [56] and E-learning effectiveness evaluation [57]. The basic steps of this method are as follows:…”

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Using DEMATEL and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets to Identify Critical Factors Influencing the Recycling Rate of End-Of-Life Vehicles in China

Junwei

Luo

2017

Sustainability

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At present, the recycling rate of End-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in China is far lower than the heavily motorized countries, resulting in severe environmental pollution, waste of resource and hidden traffic troubles, which has a negative impact on China's economic and social sustainable development. With the arrival of the peak season of generating ELVs in China, it is urgent and important to improve the recycling rate of ELVs. The recycling rate of ELVs is influenced by multiple factors together. The existing research about the identification of influence factors of ELV recycling rate fewer considers the interaction effect among different factors. To fill the gap, firstly the influence factors are analyzed from standpoints of economy, policy, recycling network and others. Then a hybrid model based on DEMATEL (decision making trial and evaluation laboratory) and intuitionistic fuzzy sets is employed to examine the cause-effect relationships among factors. In the study, the vagueness of decision makers' judgment and linguistic inaccuracy is dealt with effectively by intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The research results reveal "fiscal subsidy", "government's restrictive policies to reuse ELVs parts", "coordination of the industry agencies", "participation of automobile manufacturer" and "supervision of the government" are most significant criteria influencing the recycling rate of ELVs in China. A sensitivity analysis is conducted to verify the robustness of results. Lastly, according to the critical influencing factors identified, some pertinent suggestions to the government, ELV recycling enterprise, owner and vehicle manufacturer are put forward. In addition, the future research directions are proposed.

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“…The rough number more accurately captures experts' perceptions and does not require any auxiliary information (Zhu, Hu, Qi, Gu, & Peng, 2015). As a result, the rough number approach has recently been applied to a range of topics such as for sustainable supplier selection (Song et al, 2017b), sustainable supply chain management (Song et al, 2017a), and design concept estimation (Zhu et al, 2015). The detailed mathematical formulations are presented in Appendix B.1.…”

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“…Because d is a nonzero constant, the arithmetic operations of the rough number can be expressed as follows (Song, Ming, & Liu, 2017a;Song, Ming, & Wu, 2013;Song, Xu, & Liu, 2017b):…”

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Improving Strategic Orientations for Promoting Hotel Services Using an Integrated Rough Magdm Model

Liou

Kaklauskas

et al. 2019

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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This study aims to assist decision makers to improve hotel service performance by developing strategic orientations. Strategic orientations are imprecise and subjective: they vary according to domain experts' opinions and practical experience. This study develops an integrated rough multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) model that supports decision makers to acquire a systematic view of strategic methods for improving performance to the desired level. The model incorporates three methods. First, we use the rough number approach to determine group opinions from the practical experience of domain experts. We then apply the rough decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL)-based analytic network process to develop a rough influential network relation map (RINRM). The rough influential weights based on strategic orientations and their corresponding attributes are calculated. Finally, we use the modified complex proportional assessment of alternatives with gray relations (mCOPRAS-G) and the influential weights to calculate the relationship ratio between performance and aspiration level. Our model flexibly assesses the vagueness involved in decision-making, enabling more objective expert estimation of attributes in subjective surroundings than traditional multiple attributes decision-making models. We use the Taiwanese hotel industry as an empirical case study. Our study provides useful information on how to enhance hotel services and achieve optimal performance based upon expert judgments and the RINRM. The results show that customer orientation is the optimal strategy for hotel service promotion.Keywords: strategic orientation, hotel service performance, multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), rough number, rough DEMATEL-based analytic network process (RDANP), modified complex proportional assessment of alternatives with gray relations (mCOPRAS-G).JEL Classification: C02, C60, D12, D81, L83, O21.

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Developing sustainable supplier selection criteria for solar air-conditioner manufacturer: An integrated approach

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An Integrated Sustainable Supplier Selection Approach Based on Hybrid Information Aggregation

An Integrated Sustainable Supplier Selection Approach Based on Hybrid Information Aggregation

Using DEMATEL and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets to Identify Critical Factors Influencing the Recycling Rate of End-Of-Life Vehicles in China

Improving Strategic Orientations for Promoting Hotel Services Using an Integrated Rough Magdm Model

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