Strategizing sustainability in e-commerce channels for additive manufacturing using value-focused thinking and fuzzy cognitive maps

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 390-411

  Shukla, Shekhar ^a   Mohanty, B K ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; E commerce; Fuzzy cognitive maps; Strategic planning; Sustainability; Value focused thinking

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION SITUATION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SCENARIO-BASED ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL ASPECTS; VALUE-FOCUSED THINKING;

COMMERCE;

EID: 85042879340     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-03-2017-0122     Document Type: Article

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