Transparent prioritisation, budgeting and resource allocation with multi-criteria decision analysis and decision conferencing

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-68

  Phillips, Lawrence D ^a   Bana E Costa, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Budgeting; Capital budgeting; Capital planning; Commons dilemma; Equity; Managerial decision making; Multi criteria decision analysis; Prioritisation; Procurement; Real world applications; Resource allocation; System design

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547279499     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0183-3     Document Type: Article

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