Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a pivotal driver of firm valuation, investment flows, and capital market stability and a critical dimension of corporate sustainability and investor decision-making. Yet, emerging markets face structural barriers to standardized...

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is widely used in engineering to assist in the selection of the best alternative according to various criteria. Many MCDM methods rely on fixed weight assignments, limiting their ability to reflect uncertainties or variations in decision-maker preferences....

The strategic choice of project delivery method profoundly impacts the success of residential construction projects. This study focuses on the Indian construction industry intricate dynamics involving various stakeholders, including project managers, contractors, and clients, in shaping project...

The construction of Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT) models in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis is particularly challenging when interactions between criteria are present. While additive aggregation models are widely accepted due to their transparency and intuitive interpretation, they...

Purpose: Hub location problems have been utilized in various applications including rail transportation network planning, where hub serves as a key transit point within the network. In this paper, we focus on determining the optimal location for a rail transportation hub, where cost and service...

In this paper, we formulate a hybrid version of the two-stage procedure for the utility maximization problem of a consumer proposed by Green (1964). In particular, we replace the second stage of this procedure with a problem of expenditure minimization. Under the assumption of homogeneous...

Agritourism has emerged as a contemporary tourism alternative in the post-COVID-19 era, adapting to the need to connect with nature while promoting a sustainable tourism model. As nations increasingly recognize agritourism's potential, efforts to create suitable locations strategically are...