Sustainability performance assessment of an aircraft manufacturing firm

Benchmarking

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1500-1527

  Raj, Alok ^a   Srivastava, Samir K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Aerospace sector; Aircraft manufacturing; Fuzzy best worst method (FBWM); India; Performance measurement; Sustainable supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048853226     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-01-2017-0001     Document Type: Article

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