A Stochastic Multi-Attribute Method for Measuring Sustainability Performance of a Supplier Based on a Triple Bottom Line Approach in a Dual Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Environment

Guohua Qu, Rudan Xue, Tianjiao Li, Weihua Qu and Zeshui Xu
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Guohua Qu: School of Management Science and Engineering, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Rudan Xue: School of Management Science and Engineering, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Tianjiao Li: School of Management Science and Engineering, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Weihua Qu: Institute of Management and Decision, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
Zeshui Xu: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 6, 1-26

Abstract: China is a developing country and with the speeding up of its industrialization, the environmental problems are becoming more serious, environmental pollution is a major environmental health problem in China. In order to have a more effective management and control of the significant growth issues of environment pollution, green supply chain incentives have started, which is kind of market incentive aiming to moderate the adverse effects of environmental pollution. Proper green chain supply selection and evaluation of companies is becoming very essential in sustainable green supply chain management. Generally speaking, decision-makers (DMs) prefer to provide a set of feasible and quantitative information for making performance evaluation, which motivates us to propose a framework using dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (DHFLTS) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) to select green suppliers. In this paper, group satisfaction and the regret theory are adopted for elicitation of preference information. The DHFLTS and HFLTS provide qualitative preferences of the DMs as well as reflect their hesitancy, inconsistency, and vagueness. Further, two new group satisfaction degrees are defined called the group satisfaction of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set. Some properties of group satisfaction with DHFLST and HFL are also discussed. Unknown attribute weights are obtained to construct a novel Lagrange function optimization model to maximize the group satisfaction degree, which is an extension of general group satisfaction degree. A novel methodological approach based on two group satisfaction degrees framework and regret theory is developed to rank and select green chain suppliers focusing on specific selection objectives. The proposed model and method of this paper allow the DM to execute different fuzzy scenarios by changing importance weights attached to the triple-bottom-line areas. In the final part, the advantage of the proposed group satisfaction degree under DHFL and HFL background over the existing group satisfaction degree using examples have been presented with different computational combinations.

Keywords: dual hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; sustainability; group satisfaction degree; green supply chain; stochastic multi-attribute method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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