Enhancing organisational resilience: Application of viable system model and MCDA in a small Hong Kong company

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5545-5563

  Chan, Joseph W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

multi criteria decision analysis; organisational resilience; viable system model

Indexed keywords

CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; HONG-KONG; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE; RANKING METHODOLOGIES; SMALL ENTERPRISE; STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79961203956     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.563829     Document Type: Article

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