TQM consultant selection in SMEs with TOPSIS under fuzzy environment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2742-2749

  Saremi, Mahmoud ^a   Mousavi, S Farid ^a   Sanayei, Amir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Consultant selection; Fuzzy TOPSIS; NGT; TQM

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CONSULTANT SELECTION; DECISION CRITERIONS; DECISION PROCESS; EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS; FUNCTIONAL AREAS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY TOPSIS; NOMINAL GROUP TECHNIQUES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 56349146826     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.034     Document Type: Article

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