Project evaluation and selection in a network of collaboration: A consensual disaggregation multi-criterion approach

Project evaluation and selection are usually complex processes in large organizations, for they involve several stakeholders who are to evaluate competing alternatives with respect to a certain set of criteria and then make a choice as to which projects are to be implemented. This is particularly more so in the case of international organizations where the competing projects are proposed by units or divisions having di€erent values and preferences. This paper discusses a project evaluation and selection methodology based on multi-criteria disaggregative approach used as an instrument rather than as a descriptive tool, as it is often the case in the literature. The proposed methodology has been developed for an international organization which has more than a dozen country members and provides them with a platform to maximize the level of consensus among the member countries, subject to some certain budgetary constraints and resentment-avoiding principles. Ó 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.