“…The local communities influences (LCI) criterion measures the contributions of a supplier to its local communities (C. Baskaran et al, 2012;Dai & Blackhurst, 2012;Govindan, Khodaverdi, et al, 2013;Thornton et al, 2013). The sub-criteria that are involved in this criterion are regulatory and public services, security, grants and donations, service infrastructure, health, mobility infrastructure, supporting educational institutions, education, economic welfare and growth, social cohesion, housing, supporting community projects (Ghadimi et al, 2015).…”