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Two decades on the MACBETH approach: a bibliometric analysis
Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Santos, SérgioMACBETH stands for measuring attractiveness by a categorical based evaluation technique. It is a multiple criteria decision analysis technique created by Carlos Bana e Costa and Jean-Claude Vansnick in the early 1990s. Due to both the increasing application of the technique and progress achieved to date, this study aims to conduct a bibliometric literature review on MACBETH. The database for the review contains...
A judgment-based risk assessment framework for consumer loans
Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, Ieva; Zavadskas, Edmundas K.; Jalali, Marjan S.; Catarino, Sandra M. J.Credit to personal consumption is an important activity of the financial system and crucial to the socioeconomic development of a country. It is important, therefore, that the methods and techniques used to evaluate consumer credit risk be as efficient and informative as possible, in order to strengthen decisions to approve or reject credit and promote sustainable economic growth. This study aims to create a mu...
MCDA in knowledge-based economies: Methodological developments and real world a...
Carayannis, Elias G.; Ferreira, João; Jalali, Marjan; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.The importance of knowledge in creating value, driving productivity and promoting economic growth has long been recognized. Accompanying this recognition of the central role of knowledge in today's economies has been an added focus on information technology, learning and the accelerated pace of technical and scientific advance that results therefrom. Closely connected to these developments has been the advent o...
Enhancing the decision-making virtuous cycle of ethical banking practices using...
Ferreira, João José de Matos; Jalali, Marjan; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.Although increasingly demanded of the sector, aligning ethical management and ethical principles in the banking activity is a challenging endeavor, due to the existence of conflicts of interest. Grounded on a previously developed cognitive map on ethical banking practices (Ferreira et al., 2016a), the current study uses the Choquet integral—a non-additive multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) operator—to h...
Developing a socio-technical evaluation index for tourist destination competiti...
Carayannis, Elias G.; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Bento, Paulo; Ferreira, João José de Matos; Jalali, Marjan; Fernandes, Bernardo M.Q.The tourism sector has experienced remarkable growth over the past few years. Its relevance to the economy of a wide range of countries has made it the subject of analysis of researchers and tourist destination managers alike; in part, due to the increasing competition among tourist destinations. Interest has thus emerged in the design, development and application of methodologies that might allow the competiti...
A Multiple Criteria Group Decision-Making Approach for the Assessment of Small ...
Gonçalves, Joana M.; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Ferreira, João José de Matos; Farinha, LuísPurpose – Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become increasingly important in national and international markets because they contribute to the development of local and national economies. SMEs often face serious challenges when competing with multinational companies. The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for assessing SMEs’ competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a const...
Constructing home safety indices for strategic planning in residential real est...
Oliveira, Inês A. S. J.; Carayannis, Elias; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Jalali, Marjan; Carlicci, Daniela; Ferreira, João José de MatosResidential safety and perceptions thereof directly influence the daily habits of an area's residents, as well as its levels of economic activity, and the revenue generated and traded in its real estate. These variables, in turn, impact the flows of local population, and ultimately the socio-economic development of the region. Although residential safety, and its determinants in particular, have been widely stu...
Proposal of a green index for small and medium-sized enterprises: A multiple cr...
Rita, Diana I.G.; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, Leva; Govindan, Kannan; Ferreira, JoãoThe impact of small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) activities on the environment has proved to be negative in certain contexts, since these companies have not, for the most part, included environmentally sustainable practices in their processes, strategies, or long-term vision. Therefore, SMEs need to start adopting more environmentally-friendly behaviors to ensure a better future for coming generations. ...
A fuzzy knowledge-based framework for risk assessment of residential real estat...
Ribeiro, Mónica I. F.; Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Jalali, Marjan S.; Meiduté-Kavaliauskiené, IevaRisk analysis of residential real estate investments requires careful analysis of certain variables (or determinants). Because real estate is a key sector for economic and social development, this risk analysis is seen as critical in supporting decision processes relating to buying or selling residential properties, partly due to the pressures caused by the current economic environment. This study aims to devel...
Comparing trade-off adjustments in credit risk analysis of mortgage loans using...
Ferreira, Fernando A. F.; Santos, Sérgio Pereira dosDue to the severe restrictions on access to credit resulting from the current economic climate, credit risk analysis of mortgage loans has been considered paramount for banking institutions and is currently accompanied by higher credit underwriting standards. In this paper, we present an empirical comparison of three decision support tools (i.e. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Delphi, and Measuring Attractive...