Sustainability in The Banking Industry: A Strategic Multi-Criterion Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 550-568

  Raut, Rakesh ^a   Cheikhrouhou, Naoufel ^b   Kharat, Manoj ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING NITIE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balanced Scorecard; fuzzy AHP; fuzzy TOPSIS; multi criterion decision making; performance evaluation; sustainability; sustainable banking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013501016     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1946     Document Type: Article

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