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Sustainability benchmarking for logistics center location decision
- Source :
- Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal. 31:1239-1260
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Emerald, 2019.
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Abstract
- PurposeAs in line with eco benchmarking, the purpose of this paper is to solve a location selection problem in an emerging country by applying sustainability benchmarking principles.Design/methodology/approachA hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method, fuzzy AHP and Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE), is used as methodology to make sustainability benchmarking for logistics center location selection.FindingsIt is revealed that according to AHP and PROMETHEE calculations, Kemalpasa is determined as the most appropriate location from the sustainable perspectives. Torbali is specified as the worst location to construct a logistics center in terms of benchmarking criteria based on sustainability concerns. Based on these numerical results, managerial implications are presented with a sustainability benchmarking view.Originality/valueThe main originality of this study is integrating one of the relatively new topics, sustainability benchmarking, with a popular area, logistics center location selection.
- Subjects :
- Logistics center
Operations research
Computer science
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05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Analytic hierarchy process
Benchmarking
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Preference
Ranking
Originality
0502 economics and business
Sustainability
Construct (philosophy)
050203 business & management
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14777835
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e3d03a2ce6aaa3ef7cec337c8fd72609
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1108/meq-08-2019-0177