A holistic evaluation of the e-procurement website by using a hybrid MCDM methodology

Electronic Government

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-150

  Kabak, Mehmet ^a   Burmaoǧlu, Serhat ^a  

^a TURKISH MILITARY ACADEMY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; ANP; Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory; DEMATEL; E government; E PP; Electronic public procurement; Evaluation; Fuzzy; Public procurement; Website; Weight variance analysis; WVA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875668166     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2013.052598     Document Type: Review

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