A fuzzy multicriteria approach for evaluating environmental performance of suppliers

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 370-378

  Awasthi, Anjali ^a   Chauhan, Satyaveer S ^b   Goyal, S K ^b  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental performance; Fuzzy theory; Multicriteria decision making; Supplier selection; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FUZZY THEORY; FUZZY TOPSIS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SUPPLIER SELECTION;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY LOGIC; LINGUISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953811504     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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