Exploring the impact of evaluating strategic options in a scenario-based multi-criteria framework

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 657-672

  Ram, Camelia ^a   Montibeller, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflicting objectives; Decisions under uncertainty; Robustness analysis; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES; DECISIONS UNDER UNCERTAINTY; DEEP UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO PLANNING; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANNING METHOD; STRATEGIC APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 84875382032     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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