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Collaborative Management of a Sustainable Supply Chain in a Water Diversion Project

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Measuring the level of collaboration in the sustainable supply chain (SSC) of water diversion projects is of great value to the sustainable operation of the project. To this end, a scientific and reasonable collaboration measurement method must be developed. Given the economic, environmental and social benefits of water diversion projects and based on the theory of the SCC, an order parameter index system for collaboration measurement was constructed in this study. The DEMATEL and analytic network process methods were used to compute the local and global weights of each order parameter. A total of 161 valid questionnaires were collected from residents along the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) to measure the collaboration on this project from 2018 to 2020. The results showed that the orderliness of the four flow subsystems of the middle route of the SNWDP increased annually. Compared with the other three flow subsystems, the knowledge flow subsystem showed a lower level of orderliness, suggesting that communication and exchanges among people along the route should be strengthened. These findings can help identify the weak link in the collaborative management of the SSC of water diversion projects and improve collaboration efforts in a targeted manner.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to express appreciations to colleagues in the laboratory for their constructive suggestions. Also, we thank the anonymous reviewers and members of the editorial team for their constructive comments.

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This study was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 71974056); Science and Technology Innovation Talent Support Plan of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province (grant number: 2021-CX-005); Henan Science and Technology Think Tank Research Project (grant number: HNKJZK-2022-04B); China Scholarship Council (2020) 28 (File NO. 202008410271).

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    Meng Liu

  2. School of Management and Economics, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Henan Province, Zhengzhou City, 450046, China

    Wenwen Ding & Yali Lu

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by M Liu, WW Ding and YL Lu. The first draft of the manuscript was written by M Liu, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Liu, M., Ding, W. & Lu, Y. Collaborative Management of a Sustainable Supply Chain in a Water Diversion Project. Water Resour Manage 36, 2665–2683 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03168-3

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