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Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process

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Owing to the complexity of a construction project, the fuzzy ANP is helpful to deal with interdependent relationships within a multi-criteria decision-making model. This paper uses the Porter’s diamond model that influences how competitive advantages, which is a matrix providing a conceptual model for the main framework, as a construct for selecting the location of a regional hospital in Taiwan to determine its effectiveness. The applicability of our proposed fuzzy ANP model is demonstrated with a case study that summarizes an intervention in which the model’s framework and basic concepts were applied.

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  1. Department of Finance, Yuanpei University, 306 Yuanpei St., Hsin Chu, 30015, Taiwan, ROC

    Cheng-Ru Wu

  2. Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, 306 Yuanpei St., Hsin Chu, 30015, Taiwan, ROC

    Chin-Tsai Lin

  3. Department of Business Administration, National Dong Hwa University, 1, sec. 2, Da Hsueh Rd., ShouFeng, Hualien, 97401, Taiwan, ROC

    Huang-Chu Chen

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Wu, CR., Lin, CT. & Chen, HC. Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process. Qual Quant 43, 351–380 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-007-9125-z

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