Green supply chain practices and performance in Ghana's mining industry: A comparative evaluation based on DEMATEL and AHP

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 320-347

  Kusi Sarpong, Simonov ^a   Sarkis, Joseph ^b   Wang, Xuping ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytic hierarchy process; Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory; DEMATEL; Ghana; Green supply chain management; MCDM; Mining industry; Multi criteria decision making; SSCM; Tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027467011     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2016.10002317     Document Type: Article

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