Research On Sustainable Development Evaluation Of Inland Port Based On Stakeholder Theory

The effective evaluation on the inland port development will contribute to identify its strength and weakness in order to adopt appropriate strategies for its development.In today's world trend,new demands have been put forward for the inland port sustainable development.Besides,how to establish a comprehensive evaluation system becomes a decisive factor in assessing the sustainable development of the inland port while the core element of the inland port development are the stakeholders.If the demands of the stakeholder cannot be fully taken into account,the development of the inland port is unlikely to achieve sustainability at economic,social or environmental levels.Under this background,this paper focus on the sustainable development of the inland port by comprehensively utilizing the stakeholder theory,operational research method and fuzzy mathematic method to construct an index system of inland port sustainable development evaluation from the perspective of the stakeholder demand,and to establish an evaluation model based on the analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method.First,this paper theoretically analyzes the main features of the inland port development and its related theories,including identify certain confusing and controversial concepts,such as the definitions and classifications of the inland port.And further come up with the driving factors on the emergence and development of inland port,which provides a theoretical basis for the later research.Secondly,the evaluation index system of inland port sustainable development based on the demand of the stakeholders is put forward.In order to comprehensively evaluate the sustainable development level of inland ports.This paper first adopts meta-analysis based on literature to sort out the stakeholders in the harbor and the inland port,and determine a related stakeholder ensemble through expert consultation method.Then,through the stakeholder demand analysis to form a demand set,then to make judgements and classifications in order to build an index system on the evaluation of the inland port sustainable development.And then by further analysis of the demand,the stakeholders will be classified into economic,social and environmental dimensions of the sustainable development,and ultimately build a three-level evaluation index system centers on the inland ports sustainable development.Then,an evaluation model of inland port sustainable development based on ana-lytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is constructed.It includes the use of analytic hierarchy process to calculate the weights of all levels of indicators,the use of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method for three-level comprehensive evaluation,and ultimately the importance and membership of inland port indicators.At the same time,it also established the effectiveness testing standard for maximum membership principles,providing the basis for further statistical analysis and the portfolio analysis of the follow-up stakeholders.Finally,empirical analysis.Taking Chongqing Tuanjiecun inland port as an example,we applied the inland port sustainable development evaluation index system through system evaluation method based on this paper.The results show that,according to the maximum membership principle,the sustainable development of the Tuanjiecun inland port is likely to be in a mediate state in terms of sustainable development.And through the classification analysis of the stakeholder,we have provided different development strategies for Tuanjiecun inland port.