Using Fuzzy AHP to manage Intellectual Capital assets: An application to the ICT service industry

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3747-3755

  Calabrese, Armando ^a   Costa, Roberta ^a   Menichini, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Fuzzy AHP; Intellectual Capital; Knowledge management; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); COMPANY VALUES; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPETITIVE BUSINESS; FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS; FUZZY AHP; ICT SERVICES; INTANGIBLE ASSETS; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MANAGEMENT IS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING;

BENCHMARKING; COMPETITION; FUZZY LOGIC; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84874665542     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.081     Document Type: Article

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