A hierarchical framework for assessing corporate sustainability performance using a hybrid fuzzy synthetic method-DEMATEL

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 144, Issue , 2019, Pages 524-533

  Tseng, Ming Lang ^a,b   Wu, Kuo Jui ^c   Ma, Li ^c   Kuo, Tsai Chi ^d   Sai, Fuyume ^e  

^a LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e DAITO BUNKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability performance; DEMATEL; Fuzzy synthetic method; Hierarchical framework; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; DEMATEL; HIERARCHICAL FRAMEWORK; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; SYNTHETIC METHODS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; LABORATORY METHOD; STAKEHOLDER; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 85032260653     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.10.014     Document Type: Article

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