Balanced scorecard based performance measurement of European airlines using a hybrid multicriteria decision making approach under the fuzzy environment

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 17-33

  Dinçer, Hasan ^a   Hacıoğlu, Ümit ^a   Yüksel, Serhat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL MEDIPOL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; European airline industry; Fuzzy ANP; Fuzzy DEMATEL; MOORA; Multicriteria decision making

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROFITABILITY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 85019702661     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.05.005     Document Type: Article

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