COPRAS based comparative analysis of the European country management capabilities within the construction sector in the time of crisis;Europos valstybių gebėjimo valdyti statybos sektorių krizės laikotarpiu palyginamoji analizė taikant copras metodą

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 417-434

  Kildiene, Simona ^a   Kaklauskas, Arturas ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Construction sector; Copras method; Criteria; Economic; Entropy weight; Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054947623     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: 20294433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16111699.2011.575190     Document Type: Article

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