Linguistic multi-criteria decision making for energy and environmental corporate policy

Information Sciences

Volumn 258, Issue , 2014, Pages 328-338

  Doukas, Haris ^a   Tsiousi, Anastasia ^a   Marinakis, Vangelis ^a   Psarras, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Linguistic variables; Multi criteria analysis; Small medium enterprises; Sustainable development; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (CSR); ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES; LINGUISTIC MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; TOPSIS;

INDUSTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84889083067     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.08.027     Document Type: Article

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