Improving RFID adoption in Taiwan's healthcare industry based on a DEMATEL technique with a hybrid MCDM model

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 259-269

  Lu, Ming Tsang ^a   Lin, Shi Woei ^b   Tzeng, Gwo Hshiung ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DANP (DEMATEL based ANP); Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL); Healthcare industry; Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Radio frequency identification (RFID); VIKOR

Indexed keywords

DANP (DEMATEL-BASED ANP); DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORIES; HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; VIKOR;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84889084987     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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