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The chapter presents a method for determining the importance of criteria for sustainability assessment in enterprises using so-called a preference analysis for the third Thurstone’s quarter. The proposed method of determining the validity is an alternative to the method of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP method with a larger number of criteria becomes less useful because of the occurrence of importance blurring and the difficulty in maintaining coherence preference matrix. In the first part of the chapter, there are identified sustainability criteria related to remanufacturing companies, on the basis of the literature review. Moreover there is described a simplified procedure for determining the importance level of criteria for sustainability assessment using the preference analysis for the third Thurstone’s quarter. In the empirical part there are presented the results of research, which were conducted among experts.
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This chapter refers to the research financed by the Narodowe Centrum Badan i Rozwoju NCBiR (National Centre for Research and Development) in the framework of the German-Polish cooperation for sustainable development, project “Sustainability in remanufacturing operations (SIRO)”, grant no WPN/2/2012.
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Kosacka, M., Mierzwiak, R. (2018). Determining the Importance of the Criteria for Assessment of Sustainability in Remanufacturing Companies. In: Golinska-Dawson, P., Kübler, F. (eds) Sustainability in Remanufacturing Operations. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60355-1_8
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