A Multimethodology Contractor Assessment Model for Facilitating Green Innovation: The View of Energy and Environmental Protection

Abstract

The trends of the green supply chain are attributed to pressures from the environment and from customers. Green innovation is a practice for creating competitive advantage in sustainable development. To keep up with the changing business environment, the construction industry needs an appropriate assessment tool to examine the intrinsic and extrinsic effects regarding corporate competitive advantage. From the viewpoint of energy and environmental protection, this study combines four scientific methodologies to develop an assessment model for the green innovation of contractors. System dynamics can be used to estimate the future trends for the overall industrial structure and is useful in predicting competitive advantage in the industry. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and utility theory focus on the customer's attitude toward risk and are useful for comprehending changes in objective requirements in the environment. Fuzzy logic can simplify complicated intrinsic and extrinsic factors and express them with a number or ratio that is easy to understand. The proposed assessment model can be used as a reference to guide the government in examining the public constructions that qualified green contractors participate in. Additionally, the assessment model serves an indicator of relative competitiveness that can help the general contractor and subcontractor to evaluate themselves and further green innovations.

System Dynamics Modeling for Construction Management Research: Critical Review and Future Trends

“…Ogunlana et al (2003), on the other hand, used SDM to integrate engineering processes and local influencing factors to simulate the performance of construction firms. SDM was also used for performance evaluation at the project level, such as the performance of construction enterprise resource planning systems (Tatari, Castro-Lacouture, & Skibniewski, 2008), the effectiveness of contractors' bidding management (Lo, Lin, & Yan, 2007), construction quality management (Nasirzadeh, Khanzadi, Afshar, & Howick, 2013), labor productivity (Nasirzadeh & Nojedehi, 2013), the impact of design rework on project performance (Li & Taylor, 2014), and the effectiveness of contractors' green innovation (Hsueh & Yan, 2013). Based on these studies, both the impacts of internal and external complexities on organizational/project performance can be streamlined using SDM.…”

Project-Based Market Competition and Policy Implications for Sustainable Developments in Building and Construction Sectors

“…Although previous studies estimated that construction can contribute approximately 13% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) [1], this comes as a cost, since various statistics show excessive consumption of global resources and excessive energy use and associated global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [2,3]. The building sector accounts for 30%-40% of global energy use by the United Nations Environment Program [4].…”

A DFuzzy Evaluation Model for the Development of Cultural and Creative Industries -Example of Industries with Local Characteristics in Taiwan

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