Using social media and qualitative and quantitative information scales to benchmark corporate sustainability

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 727-738

  Tseng, Ming Lang ^a  

^a LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability; Entropy; Fuzzy Delphi; Fuzzy set theory; Social media; Vague set; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; FUZZY SET THEORY; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; FUZZY DELPHI; SOCIAL MEDIA; VAGUE SETS; VIKOR;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84973535660     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.062     Document Type: Article

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