Research on Supplier Evaluation in a Green Supply Chain

Table 3

The cause-effect relationship of the green supplier.

	Evaluation index	Effect	Affected	Centrality	Cause
		degree ()	degree ()	degree ()	degree ()
	Quality management system	1.3020	1.4770	2.7790	-0.1750
	Relative price level	1.0294	1.2872	2.3166	-0.2578
	Equipment	2.1965	2.2783	4.4748	-0.0818
	Product qualification ratio	2.1557	1.3253	3.4810	0.8304
	Logistics cost	0.6581	0.6563	1.3144	0.0018
	On-time delivery rate	1.3786	0.9162	2.2948	0.4624
	Order completion rate	1.5961	1.3306	2.9267	0.2655
	Services response speed	1.6362	0.4482	2.0844	1.1880
	Service satisfaction	1.8683	1.1995	3.0678	0.6688
	Information level	0.6564	0.7670	1.4234	-0.1106
	Profit growth rate	1.5873	1.9612	3.5485	-0.3739
	R&D input	1.3670	1.0711	2.4381	0.2959
	Corporate reputation	1.3510	1.2392	2.5902	0.1118
	Staff quality	0.6213	0.6765	1.2978	-0.0552
	Financial situation	1.1584	1.7655	2.9239	-0.6071
	Exhaust gas emission	0.7622	1.1726	1.9348	-0.4104
	Energy consumption	0.6145	1.2672	1.8817	-0.6527
	Cleaner production level	1.0914	1.0870	2.1784	0.0044
	“Three-waste” recycling rate	0.7153	1.1618	1.8771	-0.4465
	Green enterprise image	0.6856	1.3436	2.0292	-0.6580