Integrating sustainability into supplier selection with grey system and rough set methodologies

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 252-264

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Sarkis, Joseph ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Grey system; Rough set; Supply chain; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; FORMAL MODELING; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GREY SYSTEM; GREY SYSTEMS; INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; ROUGH SET; SUPPLIER SELECTION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM THEORY;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 74449086931     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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