Financial distress early warning based on group decision making

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 885-906

  Sun, Jie ^a   Li, Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attribute weighting; Early warning; Financial distress; Grey evaluation; Group decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTING; EARLY WARNING; FINANCIAL DISTRESS; GREY EVALUATION; GROUP DECISION MAKING;

FINANCE;

EID: 53749101228     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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