Abstract
In the context of Chinese innovation-driven strategy, the role of suppliers has been attracting much attention. Since not every supplier can contribute to the buyer’s innovation, scientifically selecting an innovative supplier is highly valued by decision-makers from the new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturers. This paper focuses on proposing a novel decision framework in the context of collaborative innovation, which helps NEV manufacturers to select an innovative supplier who can work hand in hand with them to enhance their innovation performance. First, a novel capability-willingness-risk (C-W-R) evaluation indicator system is established, considering supply risk from a multi-proximity perspective which is tightly tied to collaborative innovation performance, only considered from geographical proximity in previous supplier selection research. Then a hybrid fuzzy-symmetrical multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) model is proposed that integrates fuzzy linguistic sets, best–worst method (BWM), prospect theory (PT) and VIKOR. With this approach, a final ranking is obtained for innovative supplier selection by NEV manufacturers in China. Moreover, sensitivity analysis and comparison analysis illustrate the proposed decision framework’s effectiveness and reliability and dig deep into the buyer−supplier collaborative innovation. Finally, some managerial suggestions are given for supplier selection from the standpoint of NEV manufacturers.
Highlights
New energy vehicles (NEVs) can effectively make use of clean energy and reduce pollution, which is an important direction for the development of motor vehicles in the future [1]
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The main viewpoint of this paper is that NEV manufacturers and power battery suppliers should carry out cooperative development and collaborative innovation together
Summary
New energy vehicles (NEVs) can effectively make use of clean energy and reduce pollution, which is an important direction for the development of motor vehicles in the future [1]. Selecting power battery suppliers with high potential to contribute to the NEV manufacturers’ innovation is of great importance in the cooperative development of them [12,13], so it is necessary to evaluate the innovative suppliers of power batteries in a scientific and reasonable way It is a long-standing topic to use the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) method to select the best supplier(s) [14,15,16,17], while there are few studies on selecting suppliers for key technical components [18], and previous supplier evaluation research has tended to focus on the sustainable supplier [19,20], strategic supplier [21] or green supplier [22].
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