Assessing of Green Suppliers in Applying Blockchain with Fuzzy Delphi-MOORA Hybrid Approach

Ajalli, Mehdi

doi:10.22034/jtd.2024.2037386.1949

Assessing of Green Suppliers in Applying Blockchain with Fuzzy Delphi-MOORA Hybrid Approach

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Mehdi Ajalli

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

10.22034/jtd.2024.2037386.1949

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify critical success factors in adopting blockchain technology in green supply chain management and to rank green suppliers in the lead industry in terms of readiness to adopt the technology. The research method is applied in terms of purpose; descriptive-survey in terms of data collection; and qualitative-quantitative in terms of analysis. The statistical population consisted of 60 industry experts who used the full-scale method to complete the questionnaires. Initially, 12 critical factors were identified through a comprehensive review of studies. Then, the aforementioned factors were evaluated using fuzzy Delphi and expert opinions, and finally, eight critical factors were confirmed. Then, using the SWARA weighting technique, the weights and ranks of the factors were extracted. The output indicates that the seventh factor, "Senior Management Support", with the highest weight, is the most critical factor, and the seventh factors (Organizational Management (Senior Management Support), the fifth (Recording, Traceability, and Trade), the fourth (Cybersecurity, Trustworthy and Reliable Collaborations), and the eighth (Smart Contract Capability) are the next priorities in terms of importance in assessing the readiness of green suppliers to adopt blockchain technology. The "Partnership Logistics" factor with the lowest weight was ranked last. Finally, considering the necessity of ranking key industry suppliers in terms of readiness, the MOORA technique was used. The final analysis showed that the third supplier ranked first and the second supplier ranked last.

Keywords

critical success factors

blockchain

supply chain

green suppliers

Fuzzy Delphi

MOORA

Subjects

Development of a given technology.

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