Evaluations of corporate sustainability indicators based on fuzzy similarity graphs

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 78, Issue , 2017, Pages 108-114

  Pavláková Dočekalová, Marie ^a   Doubravský, Karel ^a   Dohnal, Mirko ^a   Kocmanová, Alena ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability; Fuzzy; Indicators; Similarity graph

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUZZY LOGIC; GRAPHIC METHODS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TOPOLOGY;

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; FUZZY; FUZZY SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY GRAPH; SPECIFIC SUBSET; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 85015023892     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.02.038     Document Type: Article

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