The evaluation of financial performance for Taiwan container shipping companies by fuzzy TOPSIS

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-35

  Wang, Yu Jie ^a  

^a NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Container shipping; Financial performance; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Grey relation analysis; Representative indices

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; INDUSTRY; SHIPS;

CONTAINER SHIPPINGS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FUZZY TOPSIS; GREY RELATION ANALYSIS; REPRESENTATIVE INDICES;

FINANCE;

EID: 84901623692     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.03.021     Document Type: Article

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