Evaluating the performance of thermal power enterprises using sustainability balanced scorecard, fuzzy Delphic and hybrid multi-criteria decision making approaches for sustainability

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 569-582

  Zhao, Huiru ^a   Li, Nana ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy Delphi; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Performance evaluation; Sustainability balanced scorecard; Thermal power enterprise

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; PLANNING;

BALANCED SCORECARDS; FUZZY DELPHI; FUZZY TOPSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; THERMAL POWER ENTERPRISE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84939149248     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.141     Document Type: Article

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