Business multicriteria performance analysis: A tutorial

Benchmarking

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-411

  Iazzolino, Gianpaolo ^a   Laise, Domenico ^b   Marraro, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Business performance; Multicriteria; Outranking; Performance criteria; Performance measures; Shareholder value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861820555     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635771211243012     Document Type: Article

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