Improving corporate sustainable development by using an interdependent closed-loop hierarchical structure

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 119, Issue , 2017, Pages 24-35

  Shi, Lei ^a   Wu, Kuo Jui ^b   Tseng, Ming Lang ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytical network process; Corporate sustainability; Corporate sustainable development; Fuzzy delphi method; Interval valued triangular fuzzy numbers; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY RULES; PLANNING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERVICE INDUSTRY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS; CORPORATE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; FUZZY DELPHI METHOD; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DELPHI ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COORDINATION; DELPHI STUDY; MODEL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85027932853     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.08.014     Document Type: Article

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