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1- Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- , k.hamdi@srbiau.ac.ir
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Utilization of information technology is one of the necessary links to increase business efficiency in the national economy. Today, e-commerce has undergone changes that have changed the way business is conducted. On the other hand, with the increase of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, the Earth's temperature has increased, which has caused unpleasant changes in the environment. Therefore, the present study was conducted to identify and rank the environmental benefits of e-commerce versus conventional commerce. This research is applied based on purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of method. In this study, data were collected in two methods: library and field with a questionnaire. Research questionnaire after reviewing articles and literature on the subject and consulting experts in the form of four categories of environmental benefits of e-commerce; It was designed with 25 questions including reducing pollution, saving consumption, changing lifestyles to sustainable development, and increasing efficiency and process optimization. First, the Delphi questionnaire was prepared and given to a number of experienced experts in the field of research. The TOPSIS questionnaire was also used to collect information to rank the benefits of e-commerce, and by analyzing this part of the extracted data, the factors were ranked. The Delphi statistical population of this study includes two groups of 5 people (10 people in total) of the experts of the Electronic Commerce Development Center and the TOPSIS statistical population of this research also includes the experts of the Electronic Commerce Development Center which was 89 people. The sample size was calculated using Cochran's formula, 72 people who were selected by judgmental sampling method based on the availability of people and the desire to answer the questionnaire. According to the obtained results, the ranking of environmental benefits of e-commerce versus ordinary trade are as follows: 1- Consumption savings 2- Lifestyle change to sustainable development 3- Increase efficiency and process optimization 4- Reduce pollution .
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2020/05/5 | Accepted: 2020/10/14 | Published: 2022/03/1 | ePublished: 2022/03/1

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