Assessment of critical enablers for flexible supply chain performance measurement system using fuzzy DEMATEL approach

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 115-132

  Tyagi, Mohit ^a   Kumar, Pradeep ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Enablers; Fuzzy DEMATEL; Kappa statistics; Performance measurement system; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928322262     PISSN: 09722696     EISSN: 09740198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40171-014-0085-6     Document Type: Article

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