How can a group of procurement experts select suppliers? An approach for group decision support

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 337-357

  Kar, Arpan Kumar ^a   Pani, Ashis Kumar ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ROHTAK   (India)

^b XLRI XAVIER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision support; Group decision making; Multi criteria decision making; Supplier selection; Vendor selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890568028     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JEIM-10-2012-0076     Document Type: Article

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