Government green procurement: A Fuzzy-dematel analysis of barriers

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 313, Issue , 2014, Pages 567-589

  Dou, Yijie ^a   Sarkis, Joseph ^b   Bai, Chunguang ^a  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DEMATEL; Fuzzy c means clustering; Fuzzy set; Government green procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958523727     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53939-8_24     Document Type: Article

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