TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel fuzzy data envelopment analysis for measuring corporate sustainability performance
AU - Azadi, Majid
AU - Jafarian, Mostafa
AU - Mirhedayatian, Seyed Mostafa
AU - Saen, Reza Farzipoor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In spite of the fact that sustainability performance evaluation receives extensive attention from industrial enterprises, international organisations and researchers, some questions remain on how to evaluate sustainability. Hence, evaluation of corporate sustainability performance is a significant issue and has a strategic importance for every company. One of the techniques that can be used for measuring corporate sustainability performance is data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this paper, DEA is applied as a technique to deal with measuring corporate sustainability performance. Due to the ambiguity into the data of decision making problems, the DEA model should be formulated under fuzzy environment. Therefore, in this paper, a DEA model is developed in fuzzy framework measuring corporate sustainability performance. On the other hand, because of the complexity of the proposed model, fuzzy simulation is used along with genetic algorithm to solve the problem. A numerical example is presented to illustrate applicability of proposed model.
AB - In spite of the fact that sustainability performance evaluation receives extensive attention from industrial enterprises, international organisations and researchers, some questions remain on how to evaluate sustainability. Hence, evaluation of corporate sustainability performance is a significant issue and has a strategic importance for every company. One of the techniques that can be used for measuring corporate sustainability performance is data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this paper, DEA is applied as a technique to deal with measuring corporate sustainability performance. Due to the ambiguity into the data of decision making problems, the DEA model should be formulated under fuzzy environment. Therefore, in this paper, a DEA model is developed in fuzzy framework measuring corporate sustainability performance. On the other hand, because of the complexity of the proposed model, fuzzy simulation is used along with genetic algorithm to solve the problem. A numerical example is presented to illustrate applicability of proposed model.
KW - Corporate sustainability performance
KW - Data envelopment analysis
KW - DEA
KW - Fuzzy data
KW - Genetic algorithm
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U2 - 10.1504/IJPQM.2015.071516
DO - 10.1504/IJPQM.2015.071516
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940726528
SN - 1746-6474
VL - 16
SP - 312
EP - 324
JO - International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
JF - International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
IS - 3
ER -