...Dhobale Yash; R. Rajesh Purpose The study aims to identify the possible risk factors for electricity grids operational disruptions and to determine the most critical and influential risk indicators. Design/methodology/approach A multi-criteria decision-making best-worst method (BWM...

... the concept of Industry 4.0 in a much simpler way. Industry 4.0 is seen as the key catalyst of the fourth IR, which will offer many advantages such as decentralization, virtualization, real-time decision-making capability, interoperability and service orientation through digital convergence of industrial...

... of IS. Practical implications The relationship matrix developed can be used by the practicing managers/researchers to understand the various interactions. Thus, systematic decision making and guidance for future implementation studies will be ensured. Originality/value In the past, few authors discussed...

.... Originality/value In this paper a high-level decision-making model for outsourcing and a cause and effect type framework are demonstrated with a view to ease the decision-making process for the organizations managers. Outsourcing Decision making Framework Production planning Project business...

... EFA and CFA. Different multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) methods were discussed for the evaluation of FMS flexibility by AHP, TOPSIS, Improved PROMETHEE, Modified TOPSIS, VIKOR, SAW, WPM and GTMA (Jain and Raj, 2013b, c, 2014a, 2015a, b). In this research, a ranking of performance factors...

... function of strict bounds is applied in a data envelopment model to evaluate all possible stochastic alternatives (i.e. gambles). The amount of risk in the alternatives is measured by a newly introduced risk ratio (RR). Each alternative is considered as a decision making unit (DMU). The alternatives...

... of various organizations based on agile entities and accordingly the organizations are ranked. The ranking so obtained is compared with the ranking obtained by a popular multi‐attribute decision making (MADM) process known as Fuzzy TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution...

...Saurav Datta; Chitrasen Samantra; Siba Sankar Mahapatra; Goutam Mandal; Gautam Majumdar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a decision‐making procedural hierarchy for evaluation as well as selection of third‐party reverse logistics provider (3PL) under fuzzy environment. Design...

...Sanjay R. Gangurde; Milind M. Akarte Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi‐criteria decision making (MCDM) approach to evaluate product design alternatives in respect to the customer requirements. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports a systematic approach developed...

... based on cross‐efficiencies (Doyle and Green, 1994) as a way of finding groups for benchmarking. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Airlines Benchmarking Decision making Performance Strategy Performance improvement requires the identification of groups of organisations...

... that debates benchmarking is just a catch‐up play. GP is a quantitative technique which has been developed by Charnes and Cooper as an extension of linear programming. It is also regarded as the most practical multi‐objective decision making (MODM) technique (Mustafa and Goh, 1996). GP is very powerful...

... applicant countries to reform their political systems, transform their economies, deal with corruption and improve social justice and human rights. However, controversy has surrounded NATO's enlargement because of the current ambiguous and subjective decision‐making process and the effect that it could have...

... by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach that is a multi‐criteria decision‐making methodology in the evaluation of 3PL providers. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, after the selection criteria of 3PL providers are determined by modified Delphi method, the weights of criteria have been...

...Selçuk Perçin Purpose This study aims to provide a good insight into the use of analytic network process (ANP), a multi‐criteria decision‐making methodology in selecting and benchmarking enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach In this study, ANP model...

.... The decision making is aggravated by the complexity of supply chain relationships and enterprise strategies especially within enterprise clusters. The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive method for the evaluation and selection of suppliers' offers in parapharmaceutical industry clusters. Design...

... of uncertainties is addressed by a real time information sharing system and appropriate supplier selection. Design/methodology/approach A methodology integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with bi‐negotiation agents based on the multi‐criteria decision‐making approach and software agent technique...

...Ozden Bayazit Purpose To provide a good insight into the use of analytic network process (ANP) that is a multiple criteria decision‐making methodology in evaluating supplier selection problems. Design/methodology/approach Supplier selection problems are multi‐objective problems which have many...

... with a discussion on some of the findings, limitations and possible extensions of this research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Strategic management Benchmarking Critical success factors Decision making The conceptual framework of this study as shown in Figure 1 comprises of four...

... is a benchmarking tool that was successfully implemented at the Johnson Space Center to assess and certify new technology initiatives for each lab before final deployment to the MCC. Quest 123 integrates the analytic hierarchy process with an additive multi‐criteria decision‐making model into a dynamic benchmarking...

... of the major applications of AHP, along with a description of the method and its axioms, can be found in the works of Saaty (1972, 1977a, b, 1980, 1990, 1994, 1999) , Weiss and Rao (1987) and Zahedi (1986) . © MCB UP Limited 2003 Benchmarking Total quality management Decision making...