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The present study was conducted to identify simultaneously economic, environmental and social conditions that should be considered when deciding to cooperate with the supplier. This integrated approach allowed, besides identifying the validity of individual criteria, noting the relationship among a group of economic, social and environmental criteria. The importance of particular criteria was designated with the help of AHP method (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The research was done among experts from international enterprise of industrial automatic control line. The “Economic” group got the highest importance. The second place was taken by “Environmental”. The least importance was achieved by the “Social” category. It should be noted importance of social and environmental criteria that affect the economic dimension. The research results show that sustainability does not exist if a company is not profitable. A proper balance between economic, social and environmental perspective is needed to be successful in long and short run and sustainable development.
Keywords: supplier development, supplier selection, supplier selection criteria, sustainability© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.