Green product deletion decisions: An integrated sustainable production and consumption approach

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 349-389

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Shah, Purvi ^b   Zhu, Qingyun ^b   Sarkis, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative prospect theory; Fuzzy cluster means (FCM); Green product deletion; Rough set theory (RST); Supply chain management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SET THEORY; SET THEORY; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CUMULATIVE PROSPECT THEORY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN PRODUCTS; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; ROUGH SET THEORY (RST);

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 85040320943     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-05-2017-0175     Document Type: Article

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