Sustainable outsourcing partner selection and evaluation using an integrated BWM–VIKOR framework

Garg, C. P.; Sharma, Archana

doi:10.1007/s10668-018-0261-5

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“…Environmentally certification (C 51 ) means that the alliance partners must comply with local government environmental regulations and obtain relevant environmental certifications and certificates. This indicator has become an indispensable condition for green supplier and partner evaluation [2,47]. Green resource integration (C 52 ) means that companies must respect the natural environment and protect the ecology in the production process to create a green supply chain system.…”

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Green resource integration (C 52 ) means that companies must respect the natural environment and protect the ecology in the production process to create a green supply chain system. Strategic alliance partners value the integration of green resources in the supply chain, which can effectively enhance corporate image and implement environmental protection policies [2,47].…”

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pollution discharge treatment (C 53 ) is an environmental policy that assesses whether a company is actively implementing reduction of pollutant emissions, thereby improving the energy efficiency of enterprises. Polluting emissions from the biopharmaceutical industry, especially chemical testing, can seriously affect the environment [2,47]. Clean energy use (C 54 ) means that the company is committed to developing clean, efficient, and systematic technologies for the production of biopharmaceuticals, and promoting the use of environmentally friendly energy.…”

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clean energy use (C 54 ) means that the company is committed to developing clean, efficient, and systematic technologies for the production of biopharmaceuticals, and promoting the use of environmentally friendly energy. Clean energy includes natural renewable energy such as water, wind, tides, and solar energy [2,22,47]. Recycling/renewable capacity (C 55 ) refers to the ability of enterprises to pay attention to the recovery and regeneration of materials, consumables, or energy in the process of R&D and production.…”

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Hybrid MCDM Model for Evaluating Strategic Alliance Partners in the Green Biopharmaceutical Industry

Chang

Liou

2019

Sustainability

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Since the rise of strategic alliances which play such an important role in industry today, the biopharmaceutical industry worldwide has entered an era of rapid change and collaborative thinking. The strategic alliance is one of the most important strategies for the green biopharmaceutical industry. Member organizations in these alliances work together to create more advantageous biotechnologies based on environmental protection to achieve mutual benefits. In the past, there have been only a few studies discussing partner evaluations and the selection process for the green biopharmaceutical industry, so the criteria or indicators are still not complete. Therefore, this study proposes a novel multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for strategic alliance partner evaluation that combines the best-worst method (BWM) and the fuzzy TOPSIS technique based on the concept of aspiration level (called fuzzy TOPSIS-AL) to evaluate the performance and priority rankings of strategic alliance partners. The BWM overcomes the shortcomings of small sample sizes and streamlines the number of conventional pairwise comparisons needed. The fuzzy TOPSIS-AL technique introduces the concept of the aspiration level, thereby leading to more reasonable suggestions for improvement. In addition, data from a multinational green biopharmaceutical company survey are utilized to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the proposed model.

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Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Hybrid MCDM Model for Evaluating Strategic Alliance Partners in the Green Biopharmaceutical Industry

Chang

Liou

2019

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“…How to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method… transportation(Groenendijk et al 2018;Rezaei et al 2018b), energy(Omrani et al 2018;Zhao et al 2018; van de Kaa et al 2019a, b;Kheybaria et al 2019), sustainability(Rezaei et al 2019;Garg and Sharma 2018;Nie et al 2018), supply chain and logistics(Lo et al 2018;Rezaei et al 2015Rezaei et al , 2016Rezaei et al , 2019Ahmad et al 2017;Ahmadi et al 2017;Haeri and Rezaei 2019;Onstein et al 2019;Liu et al 2019), ICT(Nawaz et al 2018;, water(Nie et al 2018), aviation(Rezaei et al 2018a), research assessment(Salimi 2017), and R&D(Salimi and Rezaei 2018).…”

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How to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method Approach for the Case of Smart Metering

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Proactively including the ethical and societal issues of new technologies could have a positive effect on their acceptance. These issues could be captured in terms of values. In the literature, the values stakeholders deem important for the development of technology have often been identified. However, the relative ranking of these values in relation to each other have not been studied often. The best worst method is proposed as a possible method to determine the weights of values, hence it is used in an evaluative fashion. The applicability of the method is tested by applying it to the case of smart meters, one of the main components of the smart grid. The importance of values is examined for three dimensions of acceptance namely sociopolitical, market, and household acceptance.

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Evaluating barriers and strategies to sustainable supply chain risk management in the context of an emerging economy

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With increasing awareness about society and the environment, industries are urged to develop and implement sustainable supply chain (SSC) processes. However, the risk of non‐compliance against these SSC processes to manage overall business risks, namely, avoiding reputational damage and managing financial losses, is increasingly receiving senior management attention. Given these shortcomings, the objective of this research is twofold, namely, (i) to identify and evaluate barriers adopting sustainable supply chain risk management (SSCRM) processes and (ii) to prioritize SSCRM strategies to overcome these barriers in an emerging economy, namely, Bangladesh. To achieve the objectives, this study develops a framework by integrating the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (VIKOR). The results show that the “information‐related barriers” are most prevalent among the categories of barriers, and “lack of coordination and collaboration” has been identified as the most significant barrier. Evaluating the strategies, “top management commitment” is the best strategy. These findings can help managers develop strategies to overcome the most significant barriers to adopting SSCRM. The proposed framework, which integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches, can be used by decision‐makers to make accurate, prompt, and systematic decisions compliant with SSCRM business processes.

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Sustainable outsourcing partner selection and evaluation using an integrated BWM–VIKOR framework

Cited by 90 publications

References 70 publications

A Hybrid MCDM Model for Evaluating Strategic Alliance Partners in the Green Biopharmaceutical Industry

A Hybrid MCDM Model for Evaluating Strategic Alliance Partners in the Green Biopharmaceutical Industry

How to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method Approach for the Case of Smart Metering

Evaluating barriers and strategies to sustainable supply chain risk management in the context of an emerging economy

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