Abstract:

Purpose – Decoupling of pressures ranging from regulatory compliance and stakeholders expectations to business competitiveness and sustainability, companies need to designing their environmental strategies with a broader consideration of these influences. This paper aims at developing a dynamic alignment model to enhance the environmental performance that considers the influential pressures based on multi-criteria decision making process.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Authors have proposed a dynamic model for the alignment of the environmental performance based on a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach combining the analytic hierarchy process and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution. This model considers contemporary strategic dynamism of the environmental performance and provides a methodology to assist companies prioritizing the environmental aspects based on the influential pressures and deciding on the enhancement pathways.

Findings: The proposed model based on a hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making process allows prioritizing the environmental aspects considering the allocated weights to the alignment-triggered pressures and draw the way to develop different pathways to improve the alignment.

Practical Implications: The proposed Dynamic Alignment Model presents an instrument for the continuous alignment of the environmental performance and an effective management of changes and contributes to minimize gaps and divergences. 

Originality/Value: In this paper, the environmental performance has been approached through the contemporary strategic dynamism with the deployment of the multi-criteria decision making techniques to yield an alignment framework for the environmental decision that combines the internal and external approaches for an effective and sustainable improvement of the environmental performance.

Keywords: Alignment, Decision Making, Environmental Performance, Hybrid Model, Multi-Criteria.

The ageing of the Algerian oil and gas (O&G) installations has led to many incidents. Such installations are over 30
years old (life cycle) and still in operation. To deal with this O&G crucial problem, the Algerian authorities have
launched a rehabilitation and modernization schedule of these installations. Within the framework of this program,
many audit operations are initiated to elaborate a general diagnosis of the works to be performed while optimizing
production. In other words, industrial ageing risks shall be controlled. In the process safety management (PSM)
context, the aim of this paper is to study ageing problem of the Algerian industrial installations through proposed
indicators. Their prioritization adjusted by TOPSIS method which allows identification of ageing control solutions of
Algerian onshore fields.