A green managerial criteria pyramid model and key criteria for green supplier evaluation

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3505-3516

  Fallahian Najafabadi, Ali ^a   Kazemi, Sajad ^a   Latifi, Iraj ^a   Soltanmohammad, Nima ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Decision making trial and evaluation; Fuzzy set theory; Green supply chain management; Laboratory (DEMATEL); Management; Supplier selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889060523     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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