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An analytic network process approach for the election of green marketable products

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  • Ratapol Wudhikarn

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Nopasit Chakpitak
  • Gilles Neubert

Abstract

Purpose – In this study, an optimal green product is selected from three newly developed ecological products and a non-environmentally friendly product. An analytic network process (ANP), used widely for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), is applied to account for the tradeoff issues among the criteria (quality, cost and green issue) in the new green product selection processes. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper focuses on current social and consumer requirements. New product selection processes consider three major perspectives, i.e., quality, cost and environment, as criteria. The following two main methods are applied to respond to this multi-disciplinary issue: the eight quality dimensions proposed by Garvin are used to manage the quality issue, and a life cycle costing (LCC) method is applied for consideration of the cost and green issue. Therefore, the dependency issue among the criteria is considered, using a suitably selected method, the ANP method, and all the methods are applied to a real business, which produces roof tiles, for the delivery of a new optimal green product. Findings – An optimal environmentally friendly product does not overcome the existing toxic product of the focused company. The environmental performance is necessarily balanced by the quality and cost capabilities. Research limitations/implications – This paper focuses on the new product selection of roof tile products. The criteria or measuring indicators may be dissimilar, and cannot be applied to other products. Practical implications – The proposed approach can be applied to other manufacturing companies or services to allow decision makers to make better determinations for a comprehensive dependency problem. The managers can apply the proposed model to benchmark the considered products as well as to find the weaknesses of products. Originality/value – This method considers the relationship among quality, cost and environment for newly developed green products. The method produces better results than former MCDM studies which did not account for the dependency issue among the criteria.

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  • Ratapol Wudhikarn & Nopasit Chakpitak & Gilles Neubert, 2015. "An analytic network process approach for the election of green marketable products," Post-Print hal-02313333, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02313333
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    1. Yang Li & Guoyan Zhao & Pan Wu & Ju Qiu, 2022. "An Integrated Gray DEMATEL and ANP Method for Evaluating the Green Mining Performance of Underground Gold Mines," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-17, June.
    2. Aleksander Janeš & Armand Faganel, 2020. "Complementary Methods for Effective Decision Making," MIC 2020: The 20th Management International Conference,, University of Primorska Press.
    3. Changlu Zhang & Jian Zhang & Qiong Yang, 2022. "Identifying Critical Risk Factors in Green Product Certification Using Hybrid Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-17, April.
    4. Arpan Kumar Kar & Sunil Kumar & P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, 2021. "Modelling the Service Experience Encounters Using User-Generated Content: A Text Mining Approach," Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Springer;Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 22(4), pages 267-288, December.

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