Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks

JAFAR REZAEI is Associate Professor and head of section Transport and Logistics at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Supply Chain Management from TU Delft in 2012 and has a background in Operations Research. He has published in several scientific journals in Operations Management and Operations Research mainly on the topics of decision-making in different areas including (sustainable) supply chain management and logistics. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science and as a member of the editorial board of several other scientific journals. His main research interests are decision-making methods, and sustainable logistics and supply chain management. One of his outstanding achievements is the development of a decision-making method called Best-Worst Method (BWM), which has received significant attention by researchers and practitioners in many different scientific and application areas.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Decision-making and sustainability (Jafar Rezaei).- Chapter2. Sustainability-based framework for MCDM problems in renewable energies(Siamak Kheibari, Jafar Rezaei).- Chapter 3. Evaluation of manufacturing organizations ability to overcome internal barriers to green innovations (Himanshu Gupta, Mukesh Kumar Barua).- Chapter 4. Green Hospital Attributes’ Prioritization Under Hesitant Fuzzy Environment Using a VIKOR-Based Method (Hatice Camgöz Akdağ, Aziz Kemal Konyalıoğlu, Tuğçe Beldek).- Chapter 5. Logistics in the Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities (Alistair Beames, Renzo Akkerman, Jacqueline Bloemhof).- Chapter 6.The impact of internalization policies on freight transport decisions: an exploration at different geographical scales (Lori Tavasszy).- Chapter 7. Multi-Criteria Decision Analyses to assess territorial transformations: reflections of a research group. (Lami I.M., Bottero M., Abastante F.).- Chapter8. Sustainable supplier segmentation (Hamidreza Fallah Lajimi).- Chapter 9. Greenwashing’ greenhouse emission cuts? (Behnam Taebi, Azar Safari and Ibo van de Poel).- Chapter 10. The Impact of Collaborative Scheduling and Routing for Interconnected Logistics: A European Case Study (Yousef Maknoon, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire Yousef Maknoon).- Conclusion(Jafar Rezaei).