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An Informal Introduction to Multicriteria Evaluation

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Multiple Criteria Decision Methods and Applications

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Evaluation is a crucial component of effective organisation behaviour. Organisations plan actions to cope with or exploit anticipated future conditions. However, they typically cannot predict all relevant conditions and they must therefore continuously adapt their planning to varying circumstances. Evidently, planning processes are usually very ubiquitous and quite uncertain. On the other hand, impact patterns of decisions and actions are often intricate, far-reaching and conflicting. In the past, this has evoked the need for many kinds of evaluation approaches to assist the decision making process.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaft, Fernuniversität Hagen, Roggenkamp 6, D-5800, Hagen 1, Germany

    Günter Fandel

  2. Department of Business Finance and Portfolio Investment, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Spronk

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Nijkamp, P., Voogd, H. (1985). An Informal Introduction to Multicriteria Evaluation. In: Fandel, G., Spronk, J. (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Methods and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70583-0_5

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