Pitfalls in the application of analytic hierarchy process to performance measurement

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1039-1051

  Peters, Malte ^a   Zelewski, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Decision making; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 48849091423     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810890203     Document Type: Article

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