Evaluation of key cement production industries based on sustainable development factors with a combined approach of Fuzzy (AHP-VIKOR)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran; m.ajalli@basu.ac.ir

Abstract
In recent decades, the world has focused on a new concept that emphasizes the effective protection of the environment and careful use of natural resources; these emphases bring the goals of sustainable economic, environmental and social growth. Sustainable development (SD) means the development and progress of the current generation while preserving resources for the development of the future generation. The main purpose of this research is evaluation of key cement production industries based on SD factors with a combined approach of FAHP-FVIKOR. The statistical population includes 55 experts and specialists familiar with the concept of SD in 5 key industries of Iran's cement industry. Due to the limited community and lack of access to them, the opinions of 33people were finally used. The research method was practical in terms of its purpose, and it was a descriptive survey type using two questionnaires in terms of the data collection method. For this purpose, to evaluate the importance of three key factors in SD, FAHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) approach was used and the weight of the factors was calculated. The results showed that the economic sustainability factor is more important than the environmental and social sustainability factors. Next, in order to evaluate the mentioned 5 industries based on SD factors, the fuzzy VIKOR (VlseKriter ijumskaOptimizacija I KompromisnoResenje) technique was used and the final ranking of the industries was extracted. The present research is the first applied research in the field of evaluating the SD factors of the country's cement industry and ranking the key cement industries with multi-criteria decision-making techniques; So that its results can be used in the evaluation of other cement production industries and related industries of the country.

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