Management Decision: Volume 57 Issue 2

MCDM/A in practice: methodological developments and real-world applications

Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Guillermo O. Pérez-Bustamante Ilander, João J.M. Ferreira

The robustness of portfolio efficient frontiers: A comparative analysis of bi-objective and multi-objective approaches

Antonis Pavlou, Michalis Doumpos, Constantin Zopounidis

The optimization of investment portfolios is a topic of major importance in financial decision making, with many relevant models available in the relevant literature. The purpose…

A new EDAS-based in-sample-out-of-sample classifier for risk-class prediction

Jamal Ouenniche, Oscar Javier Uvalle Perez, Aziz Ettouhami

Nowadays, the field of data analytics is witnessing an unprecedented interest from a variety of stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the subfield of…

Integrating corporate social responsibility and financial performance

Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Mar Arenas-Parra, Susana Alvarez-Otero, Verónica Cañal-Fernández

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating agencies have arisen with the aim of providing external and reliable information about business behaviour. The purpose of this paper…

A multiple attribute decision making approach in evaluating employee care strategies of corporate social responsibility

Jau Yang Liu, William Shiue, Fu Hsiang Chen, Ai Ting Huang

Corporate social responsibility has gradually become an essential enterprise responsibility under stakeholders’ expectations. Employee care strategies involve both qualitative and…

A trasilient decision making tool for vendor selection: a hybrid-MCDM algorithm

Ahmed Mohammed, Irina Harris, Abdulsalam Dukyil

Vendor selection is the main activity in a sourcing decision, which is a strategic decision in that it leads enterprises to eliminate costs and improve their performance. However…

Port performance measurement in the context of port choice: an MCDA approach

Jafar Rezaei, Linde van Wulfften Palthe, Lori Tavasszy, Bart Wiegmans, Frank van der Laan

Port performance and port choice have been treated as separate streams of research. This hampers the efforts of ports to anticipate on and respond to possible future changes in…

Transportation systems’ impacts on the Vilnius housing market

Virgilija Vasiliene-Vasiliauskiene, Aidas Vasilis Vasiliauskas, Rišard Golembovskij, Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Audrius Banaitis, Kannan Govindan

The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how transportation system factors affect city housing markets. The goal was to show that identifying these…

A Bi-objective Covering Location Problem: Case of ambulance location in the Beirut area, Lebanon

Bilal El Itani, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, Hatem Masri

Ambulance response time is an important factor in saving lives and is highly linked with the ambulance location problem. The Maximum Expected Covering Location Problem (MEXCLP)…

Multi-objective surgery scheduling integrating surgeon constraints

Marwa Khalfalli, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, Hichem Kamoun

The purpose of this paper is to generate a daily operating theater schedule aiming to minimize completion time and maximum overtime while integrating real-life surgeon…

Assessing teaching performance in higher education: a framework for continuous improvement

Daniela Carlucci, Paolo Renna, Carmen Izzo, Giovanni Schiuma

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the analysis of students’ ratings of teaching quality in higher education and the disclosure of risky issues undermining…

A multiple criteria group decision-making approach for the assessment of small and medium-sized enterprise competitiveness

Joana M. Gonçalves, Fernando A.F. Ferreira, João J.M. Ferreira, Luís M.C. Farinha

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become increasingly important in national and international markets because they contribute to the development of local and…

A VIKOR-based approach for the ranking of mathematical instructional videos

Claudia Margarita Acuña-Soto, Vicente Liern, Blanca Pérez-Gladish

In the last years, the use of free-online instructional videos has gained popularity among educators and students. Its success is mainly based on the provision of fast and…

The long-run sustainability of the European Union countries: Assessing the Europe 2020 strategy through a fuzzy goal programming model

Aymeric Vié, Cinzia Colapinto, Davide La Torre, Danilo Liuzzi

Energy and environmental concerns have gained a significant role in public policy agenda as well as in energy economics literature. As policies often rely on imprecise information…