CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: AN APPLICATION ON HOME APPLIANCE FIRM

Abstract

Firms that want to create long-term value can use corporate sustainability as a business approach while preventing risks that arise from the company's decision-making activities with unifying management standards and economic, environmental and social factors. Corporate sustainability performance measurement ensures the examination of sustainability's three dimensions, which are social, environmental and economic, on a corporate level. However, when assessing corporate sustainability performance, using too many criteria poses a problem because it is difficult to set all the criteria for a master criterion. Using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) modeling is an applicable approach to measure corporate sustainability. In this study, AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), which is one of the multi-criteria decision-making modelings, is used for weighting sustainability's three dimensions and three dimensions' sub-factors. Later, TOPSIS (Technical Order of Similarity to Ideal Solution) method was used to measure the supply chain sustainability performance of one of the white goods companies known and recognized in Turkey. The data are derived from the annual and sustainability reports of the well-known household appliances brand between 2010 and 2015. This study aimed to show that AHP and TOPSIS can be used in MCDM methods while measuring sustainability performance. The article ends with constraints of the study and future work ideas.

Keywords

• AHP,Corporate Sustainability,Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling,Sustainability Performance,TOPSIS,Turkey

KURUMSAL SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK PERFORMANS ÖLÇÜMÜ: BEYAZ EŞYA FİRMASI ÜZERİNE BİR UYGULAMA

Abstract

Kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik, uzun vadeli değer yaratmayı hedefleyen, yönetim standartlarını ve ekonomik, çevresel ve sosyal faktörleri birleştirerek şirketin karar alma faaliyetlerinden kaynaklanan riskleri önleyen bir iş yaklaşımıdır. Kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik performans ölçümü, sürdürülebilirliğin sosyal, çevresel ve ekonomik olan üç boyutunun kurumsal düzeyde incelenmesini sağlar. Ancak, kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik performansını değerlendirirken, çok fazla ölçüt kullanmak bir sorun yaratmaktadır çünkü bir ana ölçüt için tüm alt kriterleri belirlemek gerçekten zor olabilmektedir. Çok kriterli karar verme (ÇKKV) modellemesinin kullanılması, kurumsal sürdürülebilirliği ölçmek için uygulanabilir bir yaklaşımdır. Bu çalışmada, ÇKKV modellemelerinden biri olan AHS (Analitik Hiyerarşi Süreci), sürdürülebilirliğin üç boyutu ve üç boyut alt faktörünü ağırlıklandırmak için kullanılmıştır. Daha sonra, Türkiye'de bilinen ve tanınan beyaz eşya firmalarından birinin tedarik zinciri sürdürülebilirlik performansını ölçmek için TOPSIS (İdeal Çözüm ile Benzerlik Yöntemi) yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Veriler, 2010-2015 yılları arasında tanınmış beyaz eşya markalarının yıllık ve sürdürülebilirlik raporlarından elde edilmiştir. Bu çalışma, sürdürülebilirlik performansını ölçerken AHS ve TOPSIS'in aynı anda kullanılabileceğini göstermeyi amaçlamıştır. Makale, çalışmanın kısıtları ve gelecekteki yapılabilecek çalışmalarla ilgili fikirler sunarak sona ermektedir.

Keywords

• AHS,Kurumsal Sürdürülebilirlik,Çok Kriterli Karar Verme,Sürdürülebilirlik Performansı,TOPSIS,Türkiye

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