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Analyzing criteria and sub-criteria for the corporate social responsibility-based supplier selection process using AHP

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Due to the rising importance of our global interdependence, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is primarily concerned with social, ethical, and economic decisions, particularly as they relate to the selection of suppliers in contemporary supply chains. In this paper, we analyze the importance of seven criteria as a means of selecting the best supplier under CSR environment. Those seven criteria are human rights issues, underage labor, female gender labor, long working hours, pollution, safeguarding mechanisms, and organizational legal responsibilities. We, however, include some relevant sub-criteria as well. These issues are compared and ranked with the combined assistance of several existing literature reviews and by managerial interviews conducted from leaders in the southern region of India. The importance of the criteria and sub-criteria used in the CSR-based supplier selection is identified by the analytical hierarchy process. This paper concludes with a presentation of the rankings and priorities of the proposed seven criteria and establishes a useful method for selecting the best supplier based on CSR.

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  1. School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, P. R. China

    Lei Xu

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, P.T.R College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

    D. Thresh Kumar & K. Madan Shankar

  3. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Devika Kannan & Gang Chen

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Xu, L., Kumar, D.T., Shankar, K.M. et al. Analyzing criteria and sub-criteria for the corporate social responsibility-based supplier selection process using AHP. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 68, 907–916 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-4952-7

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