Cultural dimensions and prototypical criteria for multi-criteria decision support in electronic markets: A comparative analysis of two job markets

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-306

  Rutkowski, Anne Francoise ^a   Van De Walle, Bartel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural values; Decision support systems; Electronic job markets; Fuzzy relational compositions; Multi criteria decision analysis; Prototypical criteria; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144523639     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-005-0316-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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