Prioritising the determinants entrepreneurial firms in the sustainable supply chain networks using fuzzy TOPSIS approach

Mahtab Sherafati, Mahdi Bashiri, Piyya Muhammad Rafi-Ul-Shan, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi*

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Abstract

Entrepreneurial ventures play as key pillars in the supply chain networks. Therefore, through the decision-making method, this study aims to prioritise entrepreneurial firms in the supply chain and to select the ones that perform properly in the network. In this regard, three main criteria are taken into account: surrounding environmental, entrepreneurial firm capabilities and individual entrepreneurial capabilities and characteristics; including several sub-criteria for each. As for the methodology, a fuzzy technique for order preferences by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method is used to prioritise entrepreneurial firms, which considers the ideal solution with linguistic weights. As such, a sample of 141 Australian firms has been taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database. Our findings confirm that the proposed method for prioritising the determinants entrepreneurial firms lead to designing a sustainable supply chain.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)482-497
Number of pages16
JournalInternational Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Volume50
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2023

Keywords

  • entrepreneurial firms
  • fuzzy TOPSIS method
  • prioritising
  • sustainable supply chain

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