Setting a business strategy to weather the telecommunications industry downturn by using fuzzy MCDM

International Journal of Services, Technology and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 346-361

  Cheng, Joe Z ^a   Yu, Ya Wen ^a   Tsai, Min Jen ^a   Tzeng, Gwo Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AHP; Business strategy; Fuzzy theory; MCDM; R D; Telecom

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FUZZY SETS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AHP; BUSINESS STRATEGY; FUZZY THEORY; INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP); MCDM; TELECOM;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

EID: 3242815300     PISSN: 14606720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSTM.2004.004847     Document Type: Article

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