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Organizational Design of Post Corporation Structure Using Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making

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A model for organizational design of post corporation structure is developed in this paper. Alternative organization solutions have been designed taking into account the post environment characterized by private operators' competition and development of new message transmission technologies. Criteria for organizational design have been considered as numerical and uncertain linguistic variables describes by fuzzy sets. The model has been tested on a numerical example.

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  1. “Srbija” PTT Corporation, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

    Momčilo Kujačić

  2. Faculty of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, University of Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe 305, 11000, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

    Nebojša J. Bojović

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Kujačić, M., Bojović, N.J. Organizational Design of Post Corporation Structure Using Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 9, 5–18 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CMOT.0000012306.85541.8d

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