Using AHP to evaluate barriers in adopting sustainable consumption and production initiatives in a supply chain

Luthra, Sunil; Mangla, Sachin Kumar; Xu, Lei; Diabat, Ali

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.04.001

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“…This approach allows factors/variables/phenomena to be weighted in terms of importance, in this case smart cities and their related barriers as well as the categories of barriers. First introduced in 1980 by Thomas L Saaty, AHP is a decision-making tool, which assists in developing a hierarchical structure of variables (Saaty 1980;Luthra et al 2013;Luthra et al 2016b). AHP/Fuzzy AHP is arguably superior to other decision analysis methods such as fuzzy TOPSIS/TOPSIS, fuzzy ANP/ ANP, and ELECTRE and due to their limited acceptability and complexity (Harputlugil et al 2011;Mangla et al 2017).…”

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Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

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Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies throughout the world. The study aims to identify the key barriers of smart cities from a review of existing literature and views of experts in this area. This work further makes an attempt on the prioritisation of barriers to recognise the most important barrier category and ranking of specific barriers within the categories to the development of smart cities in India. Through the existing literature, this work explored 31 barriers of smart cities development and divided them into six categories. This research work employed fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to prioritise the selected barriers. Findings reveal that 'Governance' is documented as the most significant category of barriers for smart city development followed by 'Economic; 'Technology'; 'Social'; 'Environmental' and 'Legal and Ethical'. In this work, authors also performed sensitivity analysis to validate the findings of study. This research is useful to the government and policymakers for eradicating the potential interferences in smart city development initiatives in developing countries like India.

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Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

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“…The lack of monitoring and enforcing strong regulations does not motivate or encourage SMEs to follow green practices. There are also studies investigating barriers to the adoption of initiatives in environmental supply chains (Awasthi & Kannan, ; Dou, Zhu, & Sarkis, ; Luthra, Mangla, Xu, & Diabat, ; Namagembe, Sridharan, & Ryan, ; Roehrich, Hoejmose, & Overland, ; Dey, Malesios, De, Chowdhury, & Abdelaziz, ). Luthra et al's () findings also showed a lack of rewards and promotions to be a setback to greener SMEs in environmental supply chains.…”

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

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One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is climate change. The need to consistently advance with environmentally sustainable practices in today's businesses is crucial, and businesses are demanded to be more environmentally sustainable every day. This study conducts an analysis of the literature on small and medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) environmental sustainability by carefully examining 122 studies from 58 journals published from 2013 to 2019. We investigate the trends in drivers and barriers of sustainability adoption to inform both SMEs managers and policymakers. Our results also classify the reviewed studies on the basis of their methodologies and show the distribution of studies across industry sectors and locations in order to set directions for future research on sustainability practices of SMEs.

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“…Policy incentives were also found to correlate positively with adoption decision-making. The availability of funding programs (Zhai and Williams, 2012) and government support and policies (Luthra et al, 2016) were important in tackling barriers and driving adoption of technologies. The results of this study show that the grant incentive programme implemented in Lebanon to increase the uptake of SWHs did have a positive impact on adoption decision-making.…”

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Consumer renewable energy technology adoption decision-making; comparing models on perceived attributes and attitudinal constructs in the case of solar water heaters in Lebanon

Elmustapha

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Bressers

2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Climate change and environmental problems are of major concern to governments, organisations, and consumers. This stresses the need for a transition towards clean renewable energy systems. To enable the diffusion of cleaner energy technology it is not enough to just have supportive policies in place. The challenge is to ensure that consumers adopt them. This article integrates insights from different research traditions into a research model to analyse consumers' adoption decision-making behaviour. The innovation-diffusion model by Rogers was used and hypotheses from environmental psychological models were later added. A survey was conducted among householders to assess the adoption of solar heating systems in the Metn neighbourhood in Lebanon (N = 200). The results revealed that adopters and non-adopters differ significantly according to socio-demographic factors, such as income and household size. The study confirmed the significance of typical variables of the diffusion of innovation model, such as relative advantage, observability, independent judgment-making, and novelty-seeking; even when testing integrative analytical models. Furthermore, the results indicate that, by integrating hypotheses from environmental psychology models to the diffusion of innovation model, a reasonable fit was achieved which is higher than the value of each model tested separately. The results can be of use to policy makers. The article ends with suggestions for future research.

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Using AHP to evaluate barriers in adopting sustainable consumption and production initiatives in a supply chain

Cited by 209 publications

References 78 publications

Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

Consumer renewable energy technology adoption decision-making; comparing models on perceived attributes and attitudinal constructs in the case of solar water heaters in Lebanon

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