TY - JOUR
T1 - An Optimization Model for Sustainability Program
AU - Jawahar, N.
AU - Satish Pandian, G.
AU - Gunasekaran, Angappa
AU - Subramanian, Nachiappan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - A sustainability program is about implementing essential sustainability practices at various intensities that will not harm people because of firm actions. This paper formulates an optimization model to identify an optimal intensity of implementation of selected sustainability practices referred as sustainability program for maximising manufacturing industry sustainability performance for a known set of budgetary and minimum thresholds constraints with respect to economic, social and socio-economic criteria. Besides modelling the paper proposes a random search procedure embedding the NN to determine the optimal sustainability program and explains the usefulness with a sample problem. Sensitivity analysis is carried out to understand the behaviour of the model. It is observed that the sustainability performances depend on the constraints such as budget limitation and threshold values of performance criterion.
AB - A sustainability program is about implementing essential sustainability practices at various intensities that will not harm people because of firm actions. This paper formulates an optimization model to identify an optimal intensity of implementation of selected sustainability practices referred as sustainability program for maximising manufacturing industry sustainability performance for a known set of budgetary and minimum thresholds constraints with respect to economic, social and socio-economic criteria. Besides modelling the paper proposes a random search procedure embedding the NN to determine the optimal sustainability program and explains the usefulness with a sample problem. Sensitivity analysis is carried out to understand the behaviour of the model. It is observed that the sustainability performances depend on the constraints such as budget limitation and threshold values of performance criterion.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10479-015-1928-z
DO - 10.1007/s10479-015-1928-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84933055915
SN - 0254-5330
VL - 250
SP - 389
EP - 425
JO - Annals of Operations Research
JF - Annals of Operations Research
IS - 2
ER -