Review Article

Green Supplier Evaluation and Selections: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review of Models, Methods, and Applications

Table 3

Criteria weighting methods used in the literature.

ClassificationWeighting methodsReferencesFrequency

Subjective weighting methodsDirect given[20, 45, 46, 56, 77, 78, 153]7
Expert judgement[2226, 39, 42, 43, 47, 49, 68, 69, 74, 112, 115, 116, 123, 124, 126, 127, 135, 136, 140, 152, 156158, 161, 166, 167, 172, 173, 182, 183, 209]35
AHP[20, 50, 51, 72, 8185, 125, 164, 168, 178181, 187193]23
ANP[21, 41, 52, 8690, 9799]11
BWM[1719, 48, 58, 114, 142, 184, 193, 194]10
QFD[29, 57, 149, 195]4
Fuzzy AHP[73, 97, 138]3
DEMATEL[37, 44, 162]3
Fuzzy preference programming[30, 59]2
Full consistency method[133]1
SWARA[198]1
PIPERECIA[197]1
Simos method[75]1
Subjective GRA[139]1
Subjective TOPSIS[117]1
Fuzzy DEMATEL[199]1
DEMATEL, ANP[36, 54, 55, 60, 66, 110, 186]7
Fuzzy DEMATEL, fuzzy ANP[120]1
ISM, ANP[163]1
DEMATEL, QFD[159]1
ANP, QFD[160]1
SWARA, QFD[130]1
BWM, FGCM[38]1

Objective weighting methodsDEA[9296, 100109]15
Entropy method[27, 28, 61, 65, 67, 128, 155, 165, 185]9
Choquet integral[80, 143146]5
Maximizing deviation method[35, 70]2
Ordered weight[141, 150]2
Hesitant fuzzy entropy measure[76]1
Divergence measure method[134]1
Grey incidence entropy[40]1
Objective GRA[122]1
Objective TOPSIS (incomplete weight)[79]1
LINMAP[149]1
Relative preference relation[64]1
Preference selection index[137]1
Time sequence weight[151]1
Delphi method[208]1

Combination weighting methodsAHP and entropy method[32, 63, 71, 121]4
Expert judgement and entropy method[34, 131]2
Entropy method and divergence measure method[132]1
Expert judgement and maximizing distance method[33]1
Expert judgement and maximizing deviation method[118]1
Expert judgement and statistical variance method[31]1
Direct given and ordered weight[147]1