Combining grey relation analysis with FMCGDM to evaluate financial performance of Taiwan container lines

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2424-2432

  Wang, Yu Jie ^a  

^a NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Container lines; Financial performance; FMCGDM; Grey relation analysis; Representative indices

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; DECISION MAKING;

CONTAINER LINES; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FMCGDM; GREY RELATION ANALYSIS; REPRESENTATIVE INDICES;

FINANCE;

EID: 56349148394     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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