A multi-criteria approach for determination of investment regions: Turkish case

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 890-909

  Eraslan, Ergün ^a   Iç, Yusuf Tansel ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Investments; Multi criteria analysis; Socio economic level; Spearman correlation test; Turkey

Indexed keywords

FUZZY TOPSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC LEVEL; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; TURKEY;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 79960701387     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571111144964     Document Type: Article

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