Sustainable development in technological and vocational higher education: Balanced scorecard measures with uncertainty

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 120, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-12

  Lin, Mei Hui ^a   Hu, Jiayao ^b   Tseng, Ming Lang ^c   Chiu, Anthony S F ^d   Lin, Chunyi ^c  

^a MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Closed loop analytical network process; Fuzzy Delphi method; Fuzzy set theory; Sustainable development; Technological and vocational higher education

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FUZZY SET THEORY; PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS; BALANCED SCORECARDS; FUZZY DELPHI METHOD; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGHER EDUCATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MODIFIED BALANCED SCORECARDS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84969348271     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.054     Document Type: Article

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