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Zrównoważona produkcja elementem determinującym wzrost wartości przedsiębiorstwa - analiza przy pomocy metody AHP/ANP
Sustainable production as an element determining the value of a business - an analysis using the AHP/ANP method

Author(s): Piotr Cymanow, Anna Florek-Paszkowska
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: sustainable production; food; corporate value; CSR; Analytic Network Process

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the application of the AHP/ANP method in solving multicriteria decision problems from the area of sustainable management. These activities lead to increasing the attractiveness and credibility of a company in line with the currently prevailing environmental trends that affect people's lifestyle and thus enhancing the value of a company. The proposed ANP models of benefits, costs, opportunities and risks including all kinds of dependencies and feedback between decision elements, reflecting the complexity of the decision problem and the relationships between factors within the company and in its vicinity. Application of AHP/ANP method enables making the final decision on the sustainable food production implementation in the business that is sup- ported by logical argumentation. This paper presents experts' opinions, which define the importance of decision elements in each of the analyzed models, allowing the identifica- tion of factors and assessing their impact on sustainable food production implementation in the analyzed company.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 64 (1)
  • Page Range: 21-31
  • Page Count: 11