Purpose – The study aims to shed light on how to identify drivers of sustainable competitive advantage under a turbulent and uncertain environment, one of the most crucial challenges faced by resource‐based strategists. Design/methodology/approach – This study introduces a VRIO‐based...

An organisation's progress strongly depends on the selection of an appropriate supplier. The selection of suitable supplier is a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, which is based on several qualitative, quantitative and even conflicting criteria. This paper aims to propose a hybrid...

Collapsible soils have considerable strength and stiffness in their dry natural state but settle dramatically when they become wet. This paper documents a low-cost, qualitative evaluation scheme using fuzzy set analysis to determine site collapsibility based on subjective knowledge of the...

Nowadays healthcare centers play a major role in improving human life quality, living standards and with improving them, residents become more and more conscious about their health. Besides, the ever-increasing urban population expands demand for new healthcare centers. Also, selecting a new...

Linear programming (LP) is the most widely used optimization technique for solving real-life problems because of its simplicity and efficiency. Although LP models require well-suited information and precise data, managers and decision makers dealing with optimization problems often have a lack...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a mathematical optimization technique that measures the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple input–output. In traditional DEA models, the data of different DMUs are assumed to be measured by precise values. But, in many real...

In decision making science, an important aspect is to select one strategy from available ones and to prioritize. Multi criteria decision making methods, especially fuzzy MCDM have made their way in to this field for several years. Among them, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method and...