A novel hybrid MCDM framework for WEEE recycling partne 2019 Journal of Clea

Due to an increase environmental awareness and stringent legislation, electronic companies attempt to move towards environmental protection and extend their efforts to integrate green competencies across their forward and reverse supply chain. Environmental performance of companies not only rely on design and manufacturing aspects but it is also affected by the partners' social as well as environmental performance. For companies, recycling and assets recovery process, as well as final disposal of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), requires recycling partners to be equipped with green competencies (GC). With the scope of this paper, selection of most desirable recycling partner is an important task and complex decision for managers of electronic companies. This paper presents a three-phase novel hybrid methodology for partner selection by electronic companies. The first phase involves extensive literature for identification of green competencies (GC) criteria and then finalize seven main criteria and forty-eight sub-criteria with experts' opinion, the second phase involves fuzzy AHP method which is used to calculate relative weight and rank the selection criteria and third phase involves ranking of recycling partners’ alternative with respect to GC criteria weights using novel VIKOR. Sensitivity analysis is also conducted to check the robustness and stability of the framework. The results indicate that resource and environmental management capabilities (REC), green core competencies (GCC), and regulatory obligation and risk compliance (RRC) are the key criteria for partner selection process.