This article presents an introduction to multicriteria decision making using two decision tools: the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalization to dependence and feedback – the Analytic Network Process (ANP). The discussion involves theoretical aspects of these methods and some...

With the increasing occurrence frequency of emergency events, emergency management (EM) has been a very important issue in management science. One of the major activities of EM is to evaluate and select the most desirable emergency alternative(s). This paper proposes a new framework combining...

This paper aims to contribute to methodology and practice for evaluating the multifunctionality of agriculture (MFA), including economic, environmental and social functions, by developing and applying an integrated farm-level multifunctionality model for the case of olive growing in Andalusia,...

With increased worldwide awareness of environmental protection, green supply chain management (GSCM) has received much attention from both researchers and practitioners over the past decade. Traditionally, organizations have considered criteria such as cost, quality, and delivery to evaluate the...

Strategic supply chain management has gained more importance with the effect of globalization. In today’s global market, well-managed supply chain is one of the most important requirements to be successful in the market. The main idea of the supply chain management is generation of good...

The planning of highway alignment is a complex decision making that involves many objectives and stakeholders. Previous studies applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to prioritize the alternatives of highway alignments. Standard AHP model could not accommodate the variety of interactions,...

Today, it has become the both public and private organizations’ concern to care human beings against ever-increasing crisis around the globe. Emergence of new technology, particularly information systems (IS), can help the managers reduce the crisis management risks while making the decisions....

The paper analyses the continuity of the demarcation process of Czech regions for the state support. This support aims to reduce negative disparities among the regions. The process of demarcation of the region includes criteria as an unemployment rate, number of applicants per one job vacancy,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore key factors or criteria of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) influencing Indonesian coal companies, using “adoption, implementation, and performance” (A-I-P) of SSCM, thru three means: first, to investigate which criteria have higher...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a newly developed integrated multi‐criteria decision method (MCDM) with two‐sided preferences or selection scenario in build‐to‐order supply chains so as to explore the future applications like supplier parks....