Multiple criteria assessment of sustainability programs in the textile industry
To survive in the long term, business needs to profit, controlling environmental impacts with social responsibility. Sustainability programs involve the integration of social and environmental issues in business models and organizational processes. The assessment of sustainability programs is a prob...
- Autores:
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Lombardi Netto, Antonio
Salomon, Valerio
Ortiz Barrios, Miguel Angel
Florek-Paszkowska, Anna
Petrillo, Antonella
Oliveira, Otavio
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Corporación Universidad de la Costa
- Repositorio:
- REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/7991
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/11323/7991
https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12871
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
- Palabra clave:
- Analytic hierarchy process
Multiple criteria decision analysis
Sustainability
Technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution
Textile industry
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
| Summary: | To survive in the long term, business needs to profit, controlling environmental impacts with social responsibility. Sustainability programs involve the integration of social and environmental issues in business models and organizational processes. The assessment of sustainability programs is a problem of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This work presents applications of MCDA for the assessment of sustainability programs in the textile industry. Applied methods for MCDA are analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique for the order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The reasons to apply AHP and TOPSIS include providing an assessment index, ranging from 0 to 1, and that the MCDA model is expected to have more criteria than alternatives. Therefore, an application of other methods, such as data envelopment analysis, could be prejudiced. Concepts from the triple bottom line, economic, social as well as environmental criteria were inserted in the proposed model. Sustainability programs of six leading companies from the Brazilian textile industry were evaluated. The main finding of the research is that AHP and TOPSIS resulted in similar evaluations for sustainability programs. Both methods resulted in the same rank of alternatives. However, with TOPSIS, companies’ sustainability indices were more disperse, varying from 0.10 to 0.92 against a range from 0.23 to 0.69 with AHP. |
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