Understanding innovation for sustainable business management capabilities and competencies under uncertainty

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13726-13760

  Wu, Kuo Jui ^a   Liao, Ching Jong ^a   Tseng, Ming Lang ^b   Chou, Pei Jay ^b  

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

^b LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capabilities and competences; Grey relational analysis; Innovation; Interval valued triangular fuzzy numbers; Sustainable business management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; COMPETITIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HOTEL INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949599673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71013726     Document Type: Article

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