Strategic multicriteria decision-making process in agriculture

Strategic Decision-making in Irrigated Agriculture Using Sustainability–related Criteria

The use of indicators for sustainability evaluation is an important step towards operationalization of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. Many literatures on framework for sustainable water management consider any one dimension of sustainability. In this paper, the sustainability of an irrigation system is assessed from economic and environmental dimension. An optimizat...

Spatial Multicriteria Decision Making

DEFINITION Multicriteria analysis is generally defined as “a decision-aid and a mathematical tool allowing the comparison of different alternatives or scenarios according to many criteria, often conflicting, in order to guide the decision maker towards a judicious choice” [12]. The set of decision alternatives considered in a given problem is often denoted by A and called the set of potential a...

Strategic Decision Making: Process, Models, and Theories

Understanding Managers' Strategic Decision- Making Process

This goal of this paper is to establish a research agenda that will lead lo a stream of research that closes Ihe gap bclwcen actual and normative strategic managerial decision making. We start by distinguishing strategic managerial decision making (choices) from other choices. Next, we propose a conceptual model of how managers make strategic decisions ihat is consistent with the observed gap b...

Strategic Decision Making Process Research : Are Entrepreneur and Owner Managed Firms Different ? Strategic Decision Making

The research into SME’s is often presented as quite distinct from strategy or general management research. This paper examines the literature on Strategic Decision Making (SDM) process, drawing in some findings from the SME sector which show some key similarities. The paper makes proposals for research into SDM processes in SME’s, which would clarify both the general management theory and theor...